Details

Subjects:

Vedas. Atharvaveda.
Earthquakes -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
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 attributed to the Baudhāyanasūtra of Baudhāyana and is a manual including rules, laws, and procedures according to the Atharvaveda tradition that are to be employed at the time of natural disasters such as earthquakes.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti baudhāyanasūtre adbhutaśāṃtiḥ // (f. 2v).
Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 2v).
Dated śaka 1725 (1805) (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 223 (UP 1336).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1336.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

908392545