Details

Standardized Title:

Āśvalāyanagr̥hyasūtra.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual including rules of dharma and associated laws for use during the performance of Vedic rites and ceremonies with respect to the creation of sacred spaces, houses, and the like; concerned with appeasing especially domestic deities residing in or presiding over these spaces.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity āśvalāyanagṛhyasūtrānusārīvāstuśāṃtiprayogaḥ // (f. 3v).
Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 3v)
Dated śaka 1738 (1816) (f. 3v).
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.
Watermarks with a crest and the initials G and M below it.

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 3256 (UP 1337).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1337.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

908392501