Details

Subjects:

Sacred thread ceremony.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

First part of manuscript (f. i-iv) instruction for performing the thread ceremony for the top three castes. Second part of manuscript is a collection of Vedic mantras (words or phrases of power) praising the deity Rudra (a Vedic form of the Hindu god Śiva). The text is more commonly known as the Rudram or the Śatarudrīya from the Yajurveda.

Contents:

Yajñopavītavidhi (f. i-iv); Rudrapraśna (f. 3-17).

Notes:

Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger from title for predominant text; section title Yajñopavītavidhi from incipit (f. i verso).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
19 leaves foliated [i-iv], 3-17, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: bāṇavāṃ uta // ane śannasyeṣava ābhurasya niṣaṃ gathiḥ // (f. 3r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red (f. i-iv) and double black (f. 3-17) line.
Watermarks on first part of manuscript (f. i-iv) with the name Costa.

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 3227 (UP 1360).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1360.

Contains:

Yajñopavītavidhi.

OCLC:

910182145