Details

Subjects:

Funeral rites and ceremonies.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Short treatise and manual on Hindu law (dharma) regarding family responsibilities, especially piṇḍa (rice ball) ritual offerings in funeral rites.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti kokilasmṛtiḥ // (f. 16v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple 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 2843 (UP 1602).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1602.

OCLC:

927444948