Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Rites and ceremonies.
Vedas.
Rites and ceremonies.
Brahmans.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgari)

Summary:

Manual for the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin priest for his part in the Agniṣṭoma rites, including verses recited against one's enemies.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 14).
Mistakes blotted out with black or just written over. Parts of leaves 1, 13, 14 ripped. Marginal corrections and additions, some lengthy.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-13, [i], lower right verso.
Colophon: ity agniṣṭome brāhmaṇāchaṃsīprayogaḥ // athātyaggniṣṭomaḥ // idaṃ pustaka[ṃ] kṛṣṇāṭhākare likhite saṃpūrṇamastu // (f. 14r)
Scribe is Kṛṣṇa Ṭhākare (f. 14r).

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 263 (UP 23).
Listed in New Catalogus Catalogorum (Madras: University of Madras, 1949), Vol. 1, p. 43B.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 23

Contributor:

Kṛṣṇa Ṭhākare, scribe.

OCLC:

155918897