Details

Standardized Title:

Āśvalāyanaśrautasūtra.

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. Lacks a beginning and an ending. Only the third, fourth, and part of the fifth adhyāya are extant.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
33 leaves foliated 41-73, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in black and red; metrical accents in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insect damage.

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 186 (UP 2045).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2045.

OCLC:

956712652