Details

Other Title:

Mahādānaprayoga

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Cows -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual of Hindu laws (dharma), rites, and ceremonies surrounding gift giving, especially the ceremony for giving a hundred cows to a Brahman (Gośata).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Mahādānaprayoga supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line on final folio. Two folios are from different kinds of paper.

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 3126 (UP 2733).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2733.

OCLC:

974381877