Details

Subjects:

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies.
Dharma.
India.
Dharma -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a Hindu law code for performing various ancient rites and ceremonies, including the practices of gifts, pilgrimages, and funerals, from the traditional school (śākhā) associated with Āśvalāyana.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black 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 2829 (UP 1651).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1651.

OCLC:

931727047