Details

Subjects:

Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Hindu architecture.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu law.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and associated rules and laws outlining aspects of a pilgrimage site such as location and various architectural elements.

Notes:

Title from explicit (f. 2r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated, [1-2].
Explicit: iti dīpasthānaṃ // (f. 2r).
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 3272 (UP 1376).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1376.

OCLC:

909567057