Details

Other Title:

Pratāpanārasiṃha
Yatisaṃskāra

Subjects:

Ascetics.
Hinduism.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Ascetics -- Hinduism.
Narayana (Hindu deity).
Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text in the genre of dharmaśāstra. Manuscript is a manual on rites and rituals for ascetics (renunciants) and especially the worship of Nārāyaṇa, a form of Viṣṇu. From a larger treatise, Yatisaṃskāra, on ascetic practice and laws governing them.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 16r); alternate title Pratāpanārasiṃha supplied by cataloger; alternate title Yatisaṃskāra from marginal abbreviation.
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 16-20, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters, words, and phrases highlighted in red.

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 3312 (UP 2723).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2723.

OCLC:

974380903