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 part of a manual and treatise (containing laws, dharma) for consultation for rites Brahmans perform to mark the three parts of the day.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
Colophon: iti saṃbhyāprakaraṇaṃ // (f. 1r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words, characters, or phrases 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 3073 (UP 2759).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2759.

OCLC:

976178161