Details

Other Title:

Pavamānahomaprayoga.

Subjects:

Homa (Rite).
Fire -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Soma (Hindu deity).
Soma.
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 guiding a priest in the rules and laws of dharma associated with the Vedic fire rites (homa) associated with this sacrifice to Pavamāna, an agent of purification, usually associated with the Vedic god and drug known as Soma.

Notes:

Title from colophon; alternate title Pavamānahomaprayoga from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śaunakoktaḥ pavamānahomavidhiḥ // (f. 7).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 248 (UP 1352).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1352.

OCLC:

908401477