Details

Subjects:

Animal sacrifice.
India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Animal sacrifice -- India.
Animal sacrifice -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual to be used in rites performed by Brahman priests and concerns animal sacrifice.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
31 leaves foliated 1-31, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.

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 297 (UP 268).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 268

OCLC:

826019118