Details

Subjects:

Vratas.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and treatise on observances, especially those associated with fasting (vrata).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
21 leaves foliated 1-21, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vidyāvrataṃ (f. 21r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Blue, European-made paper with the watermark J. Caperony on some folios.

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 3231 (UP 1585).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1585.

OCLC:

927414786