Details

Subjects:

Homa (Rite).
Fire -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
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:

Manual of instructions, rules, and regulations (dharma, Hindu law) for a Hotṛ priest to perform fire rites (homa) and for correcting any transgressions or errors made.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
59 leaves foliated 1-59, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity evaṃ raghunāthena prāyaścitakutūhale nirmite nitate haumyaprāyaścitavivecanaṃ sarvātmāśrīrāmalihitātabhdaktanārāyaṇa atrī // (f. 59r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant phrases written in red; 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 3151 (UP 1305).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1305.

OCLC:

908392230