Details

Subjects:

Vedas. Yajurveda. Kr̥ṣṇayajurveda (Taittirīyasaṃhitā).
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Ritual text teaching how to touch parts of the body while reciting Vedic mantras to Rudra, taken from the Taittirīyasaṃhitā.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Watermark of a crest incorporating flora and fauna.

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 239 (UP 1342).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1342.

OCLC:

908403284