Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu priests.
Agnihotra (Hindu rite).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual for priests to perform fire rites (agnihotra).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity āśvinasahasraṃ samāptaṃ // śrīyajñeśvarārpaṇam astu // (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line; cover borders marked with double red line; there are three asterisk designs in red on the cover (f. 1r).

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 272 (UP 2023).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2023.

OCLC:

954472287