Details

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual of instructions and associated rules and laws (dharma) for the performance of common worship (pūjā) and prayer, containing numerous mantras (words and phrases of power) for recitation.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti sāmānyapūjā // samāptaḥ // śrīsarasvatiprasan // (f. 8r).
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.

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 3873 (UP 1422).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1422.

OCLC:

910898972