Details

Subjects:

Hindu astrology.
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:

Manual and associated rules and laws (dharma) for performing rites of protection and health for people born under a particular astrological house (nakṣatra).

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 8r).
Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti nakṣaśāṃtiḥ samāptaḥ (f. 7v).
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 3249 (UP 1400).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1400.

OCLC:

910639129