Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Hindu mantras.
Sacred thread ceremony.
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:

Part of a manual or guide giving an overview of the regulations (Hindu laws) governing the performance of the sacred thread ceremony according to Vedic tradition; contains mantras (words and phrases of power) for recitation during the thread ceremony.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Yajñopavītamantra supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: śrīgaṇeṣāyanamaḥ // adyetyadi - śrīparameśvaraprItyarthaṃ yajñopavītasaskāraṃka (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers highlighted in red throughout.

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 3180 (UP 1385).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1385.

OCLC:

926052284