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:

Manual including laws of dharma and rules for the removal of demons (bhūtas).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-7, [8], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhūtaśuddhi samāptaḥ (f. 7v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Watermarks with the letters ab.

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 3403 (UP 1344).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1344.

OCLC:

908392773