Details

Subjects:

Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Dharmaśāstra text (Hindu law, dharma) on offering of rice, especially during ancestor worship. Manuscript was folded into quarters for ease of carrying, likely for use by a priest or family member while performing the rites.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 34v).
Written in 14 lines per leaf.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 3125 (UP 2774).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2774.

OCLC:

974913853