Details

Standardized Title:

Pavitreṣṭi.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Part of a manual for use by Hotṛ priests outlining rules (laws, dharma) in the performance of Vedic rites of fire sacrifice. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 16 lines per leaf.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 296 (UP 1304).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1304.

OCLC:

907935047