Details

Subjects:

Funeral rites and ceremonies.
India.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual for priests or family members performing Vedic funeral rites (śrāddha) from the traditional school (śākhā) associated with Āśvalāyana.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 3262 (UP 1351).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1351.

OCLC:

908399142