Details

Subjects:

Homa (Rite).
Agnihotra (Hindu rite).
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Guide with associated rules and laws of dharma for rites, prayers, and mantras for offerings and sacrifice to the Vedic gods; connected to or once part of the Agnihotra (fire sacrifice) and homa rites; the rites are identical to the Devayajña.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.

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 3063 (UP 1363).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1363.

OCLC:

909419045