Details

Subjects:

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:

Manual including procedures, laws according to dharma, and mantras for recitation; is a collection of pacifying formulas for use in Vedic rites and ceremonies. Work was previously part of a larger manuscript.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: śāṃtipaṭhitvā // iti baliḥ // (f. 4v).
Mistakes blacked out.

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 3261 (UP 1339).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1339.

OCLC:

908392493