Details

Subjects:

Cows -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Ghee.
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 outlining the rules, laws, and regulations around rites of penance that employ the five products and by-products of the cow (milk, manure, and urine, as well as curd and ghee).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti brahmakucaṃ samāptaḥ // (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 3160 (UP 1345).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1345.

OCLC:

908392946