Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Tonsure -- Hinduism.

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 domestic rites and rituals related to ritual hair cutting (caula); contains Vedic mantras for recitation, along with red accents. Lacks ending.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; accents for aid with Vedic recitations 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 3374 (UP 2726).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2726.

OCLC:

974380841