Details

Subjects:

Flags.
Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Flags -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
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 with associated rules and laws (dharma) connected to the rites and ceremony for raising a flag or banner; includes several mantras (words or phrases of power) for recitation. Lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Explicit: iti ṣaḍaṃgāni // sarvaloke (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out.

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 5468 (UP 1405).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1405.

OCLC:

910898065