Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Atonement (Hinduism).
Sin -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
Tables of contents.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a treatise employed for consultation, reflection, and discussion and is an explanation, illumination, and commentary regarding the secrets of expiation and atonement (prāyaścitta) and the proper rites and rituals, such as fire sacrifice, to achieve these goals (such as the removal of sin or pāpa). There is a table of contents at the end of the manuscript (Part 2, f. 1r-3v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 218r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
221 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-218, (Part 2) 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpāyaścittavivekoparacitaḥ śūlapāṇinā // pathāsatāmurasthānavirājitāṃ subhāṣitaṃ (f. 218r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; table of contents has three columns outlined 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 3154 (UP 1643).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1643.

OCLC:

930727214