Details

Subjects:

Rudra (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mantras.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and treatise on the Hindu laws (dharma) related to the worship and veneration (pūjā) of the Vedic deity Rudra; work is attribute to the ancient writer Śaunaka and may draw on material such as Vedic passages and mantras.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 3342 (UP 1590).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1590.

OCLC:

927415035