Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Hindu mantras.
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:

Collection of Vedic mantras drawn from the hymns of the Ṛgveda for use in rites and ceremonies.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, middle left verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents highlighted in red throughout.

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 4525 (UP 1361).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1361.

OCLC:

910182572