Details

Subjects:

Baudhāyana.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Excerpt from a supplement to the manual of rites by Baudhāyana, for priests in a private or public setting for consultation during rites and ceremonies performed during full and new moon sacrifices. Text outlines procedures (religious law) for the proper performance of rites at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 2v).
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated śaka 1727 (1805) (f. 2v).
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.
Manuscript is part of a group of manuscripts written by or under the direction of Sadāśiva, along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1276, Item 1279, Item 1280, Item 1281, Item 1282, Item 1283, Item 1284, Item 1285, Item 1286, Item 1287, Item 1288, Item 1289, Item 1292, Item 1294, Item 1295, Item 1296, Item 1297, Item 1298, Item 1299, and Item 1300.
Scribe is Sadāśiva, son of Kāśinātha (f. 2v).

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 231 (UP 1293).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1293.

Contributor:

Sadāśiva (Son of Kāśinātha), scribe.

OCLC:

907801115