Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Sin -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Tables of contents.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a treatise and manual employed for consultation, reflection, and discussion and is a compendium of rites of expiation and atonement (prāyaścitta), such as fire sacrifice, to achieve goals such as the removal of sin or pāpa. Table of contents at the end of the manuscript (f. 75r).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
75 leaves foliated 1-75, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadnaṃtoṣādhyāya sūnukāśīnāthopādhyāyaviracitaḥ sarvaprāyaścitatatatpratipadaukta prāyaścitādiprayogasārasaṃgrahaḥ samāptaḥ // śubham astu (f. 75r).
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.

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 3142 (UP 1631).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1631.

OCLC:

929951927