Details

Subjects:

Vedas. R̥gveda. Gāyatrī.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Guide including rules and laws of dharma associated with the performance of preparatory rites using the Gāyatrī Vedic poetic meter.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
28 leaves foliated 1-19, 22-25, 25-29, upper left and lower right verso.
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 3092 (UP 1358).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1358.

OCLC:

910178922