Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu legal text (dharma) dealing with rites and observances (vrata) of the Ekādaśī (11th day of the 15 day cycle of each month), which include fasting. Includes tables of calendrical numbers and types of rites.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; margins and tables marked with double or single red line. Manuscript is covered with a yellow powder to protect it from insects.
Single wooden board spattered with some kind of clear paste or lacquer and does not fit the size of the manuscript (11 x 19 cm).

Penn Provenance:

Damodar Sastri Sahasrabudhdhoy is named in modern western cursive on several folios and is likely a former owner of the manuscript.

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 3355 (UP 1638).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1638.

Contributor:

Sahasrabudhdhoy, Damodar Sastri, forner owner.

OCLC:

930726998