Details

Subjects:

Spirits.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India.
Dharma.
Spirits -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for private or public ceremonies as a kind of manual for priests or senior householders to guide them in the rules and regulations governing funeral rites as well as some discussion about the spirits of the dead.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: sa[ṃ]vat // 1814 // mama do[ṣo] na dī[ya]taṃ jñodekhāśo līkhā [//] rāmerāmajīvaśahāi śrīgaṇeśāyan // (f. 5r).
Dated saṃvat 1814 (1754) (f. 5r)
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with a quadruple black line.
Scribe is Jñodekhāśa (f. 5r).
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 3283 (UP 284).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 284

Contributor:

Jñodekhāśa, scribe.

OCLC:

827983525