Details

Other Title:

Āhnikakalopaprāyaścitta

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century astronomer and commentator from Maharashtra near the Godāvarī River in the village of Golo.

Summary:

Work of Hindu law (dharma) dealing with daily rites and prayers and especially with correcting mistakes in ritual procedure. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternative title Āhnikakalopaprāyaścitta supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
166 leaves foliated 1-81, 90-174, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked 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 3041 (UP 1665).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1665.

OCLC:

932463792