Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Tonsure -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise of dharma literature (Hindu law) featuring rites related to tonsuring ceremonies.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1v).
Written in 37 lines per leaf.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect manuscript from insects.
Colophon: iti kṣoravidhiḥ // tat mat / śubhaṃ bhavatu // (f. 1v).

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 3363 (UP 2737).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2737.

OCLC:

976178273