Details

Other Title:

Udyāpanavidhi.
Vratodyāpanaviṣaya.

Subjects:

Vratas.
Homa (Rite).
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and associated rules and laws (dharma) of religious vows (vrata) and Hindu sacrifice (homa) in praise of various Hindu gods.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Udyāpanavidhi from title page (f. 1r); second alternate title Vratodyāpanaviṣaya from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
27 leaves foliated 1-27, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vratodyāpanopanopayogīviṣayaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 27v).
Dated saṃvat 1905 (1848) (f. 27v).
Mistakes covered over in white or blacked out; incipit in red ink (f. 1v); vertical margins marked with triple red line.

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 3453 (UP 1396).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1396.

OCLC:

910116779