Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Atonement (Hinduism).
Sin -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a Hindu law (dharma) treatise, employed as a manual for consultation, illuminating rites of expiation and atonement (prāyaścitta) and the proper rites and rituals associated with them such as different kinds of penances (for example, brahmakūrca, sāṃtapana, prājāpatya, and many more).

Contents:

Table of contents (Part 1, f. 1-16)
Prāyaścittamañjarī (Part 2, f. 1-76).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 75v-76r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
92 leaves foliated 1-16, 1-76, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmaccitayāvanekelakaropabhidhamahādevātmajabāpūbhaṭṭaviracitā prāyaścitamaṃjarī samāptā // śrīrāmacaṃdrāya namaḥ // śrīviśveśvarārpaṇamastu // śubhaṃbhavat // (f. 75v-76r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.
Single wooden board with beveled edges and carved border to support the manuscript.

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 3148 (UP 1621).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1621.

OCLC:

929184258