Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Planets.
Planets -- Aeronautics.
Planets -- Age.
Planets -- Core.
Planets -- Density.
Planets -- Mantles.
Planets -- Mass.
Planets -- Radiation.
Planets -- Rotation.
Planets -- Seasons.
Planets -- Transits.
Planets -- Wind erosion.
Planets -- Winds.
Hindu astrology.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual or handbook on religious law (dharma) to be consulted by a priest, outlining rules (religious laws) for the performance of fire sacrifices and prayers offered to the planets.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 24v).
Written in 7-11 lines per leaf.
24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti lakṣahomapaddhatiḥ samāptā // veṃkaṭeśārpaṇam astu // (f. 24v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant numbers, syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black or red line. Some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect manuscript from insects.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by NaulI Viṭhala (f. 24v).

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 3408 (UP 1646).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1646.

Contributor:

Viṭhala, NaulI, former owner.

OCLC:

931706387