Details

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Bathing customs -- India.
Cows -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and treatise on Hindu law (dharma) dealing with various domestic rites and rituals, including gift giving (such as the gift of a cow) and bathing rites. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
41 leaves foliated 1-39, 216-217, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated after 1834 based on date in watermark.
Watermarks of the date 1834 and the company name R. Munn & Co.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some minor corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double 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 2848 (UP 1630).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1630.

OCLC:

929951998