Details

Subjects:

Ancestor worship.
India.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- India.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Ancestor worship -- India.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and associated rules and laws (dharma) for use by a priest or family member making offerings of rice balls (piṇḍa) to deceased ancestors.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
Colophon: iti piṃḍapitṛyajñaprayogaḥ // (f. 7v).
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
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 line.
Partial watermark, possibly part of a coat of arms that looks like a wing.

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 3281 (UP 1384).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1384.

OCLC:

910183410