Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu priests.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Āpāji Bhaṭṭa and grandson of Haribhaṭṭa (f. 81v).

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual and treatise on Hindu law (dharma) dealing with daily ritual practices to be performed by hotṛ priests.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 81v).
Written in 7-12 lines per leaf.
81 leaves foliated 1-81, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatkāśyapānvayasaṃbhavāgnihotrikulatilakāyamānaśrīharibhaṭṭātmajaśrībhaṭṭāyājibhaṭṭasūnubhāskarakṛta āhnikaprakāśaḥ // (f. 81).
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 double black line and double red line on front and back folios (f. 1r and f. 81v).

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 3044 (UP 1635).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1635.

OCLC:

930303743