Details

Other Title:

Ācāraratna

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Compendium of Hindu laws (dharma) functioning as an instructional manual for priests to perform different rites and ceremonies, including death rituals and procedures, fasting observances (vratas), and domestic rituals.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 210r); alternate title Ācāraratna also from colophon.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
210 leaves foliated 1-210, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmannārāyaṇabhaṭṭātmajaśrīmadrāmakṛṣṇabhaṭṭasutalkṣmaṇabhaṭṭakṛtāvācāraratne ādnīkaprakaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ śubharamastu // śrīrāmacaṃdrāyanamaḥ (f. 210r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases 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 2946 (UP 1628).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1628.

OCLC:

929715035