Details

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:

Collection of short activities (vihāras) and associated material including rules, laws, and dharma, to be carried out by a Hotṛ priest during the performance of śrauta rites and ceremonies (Vedic fire sacrifice).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, 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 black 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 3415 (UP 1313).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1313.

OCLC:

908149186