Details

Subjects:

Vratas.
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:

Text outlines the observances (vrata), rites and laws (dharma) to be performed during the "extra month" (adhimāsa) referred to as Malamāsa (impure month), an intercalary month often associated with misfortune and considered inauspicious. Performing these rites and observances is thought to alleviate such negative associations.

Notes:

Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa (f. 6v); likely with the family name Dāḍekara based on other manuscripts from this scribe (example, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1392, f. 13r).
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Partial watermark on final folio including the letters N and B, the roman numeral VII, and possible parts of animals.

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 3220 (UP 1390).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1390.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

909615466