Details

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Rice -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
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:

Manuscript is a guide or manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) to be used by a priest or householder for reciting mantras (words or phrases of power) while making offerings of rice or barley as part of a Vedic fire sacrifice

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 6-15, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: janārdanakoṃḍadevagā - gī - yāṃ - pu - // śrīmahādeva // (f. 15r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red and black lines.
Partial watermarks of letters, possibly a C and other letters.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Janārdana Koṇḍadeva (f. 15r). This owner is from the village of Gāḍagī (or Gāḍgīlāya), possibly in present day Jarakhand, India, and is written by the same scribe as Item 845, Item 931, Item 932, Item 934, Item 935, and Item 2387.

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 3183 (UP 1383).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1383.

Contributor:

Gāḍagīla, Janārdana Koṇḍadeva, former owner.

OCLC:

909586470