Details

Subjects:

Hindu altars.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Birds -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual with related laws and rules of dharma for Vedic rites and ceremonies for building a brick altar in the form of a falcon or bird.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-3, [4], upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ / śyenacitaṃ cinvītasuvargakāma iti vijñāyate (f. 1r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 3424 (UP 1362).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1362.

OCLC:

909418606