Details

Subjects:

Planets -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Sacrifice -- 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.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Planets -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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. 54v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
55 leaves foliated 1-55, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti lakṣahomapaddhatiprayogaḥ samāptaḥ śrīkāśīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // (f. 54v).
Dated śaka 1711 (1789) (f. 54v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line through the first 30 folios.
The first 30 folios are from the original manuscript, whereas the condition of the last 24 folios suggests that they may be later replacements.
Scribe is Nṛsiṅha Dīkṣita, son of Īśvara Dīkṣita (f. 54v).

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 3334 (UP 1654).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1654.

Contributor:

Nṛsiṅha Dīkṣita (Son of Īśvara Dīkṣita), scribe.

OCLC:

932229268