Details

Subjects:

Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu mythology.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a ritual manual with various rules of dharma and procedures and laws, associated with the performance of Vedic rites; the work also discusses the origins of the moon and contains mantras (words or phrases of power) for recitation during ceremonies. Sometimes employed during the birth of children or in other domestic contexts.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti somotpattiḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Watermark showing part of a crest of some kind.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 321 (UP 1335).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1335.

OCLC:

908392402