Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a collection of Hindu laws (dharma) pertaining to various domestic rites and ceremonies such as funeral rites, rituals for cures of illness, and others.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
78 leaves foliated 1-78, upper left and lower right verso.
Date after 1839 based on watermarks.
Watermarks with the name Hall and the date of 1839.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in 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 3311 (UP 1629).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1629.

OCLC:

929715429