Details

Subjects:

Hair -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu women.
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) for making offerings (dāna) of hair, especially by Hindu women.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; blue, European, machine-made paper.
Watermarks of the top part of a Britannia image as well as the date 1859.
Dated after 1859 based on watermark.

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 3129 (UP 1464).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1464.

OCLC:

910914756