Details

Standardized Title:

Āśvalāyanaśrautasūtra.

Other Title:

Śrautasūtraprathamaṣaṭka

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise and manual on early Vedic ritual and public sacrifices.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins; alternate title Śrautasūtraprathamaṣaṭka from front cover (f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
34 leaves foliated 1-34, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrautasūtrapūrvaṣaṭkasya prathamo 'dhyāyaḥ // (f. 14r).
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 185 (UP 2039).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2039.

OCLC:

956709592