Details

Subjects:

Funeral rites and ceremonies.
India.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual and treatise (containing laws, dharma) for consultation by those undertaking funeral rites. Lacks end.

Notes:

Title from note in upper margin (f. 2v).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated [1], 2, lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; incipit 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 3305 (UP 2746).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2746.

OCLC:

974706460