Details

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
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 with associated rules and laws (dharma) for performing the worship (ārādhana) of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 12-14 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated [i-iv].
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; significant words, phrases, or numbers highlighted in red throughout; metrical accents in red through part of manuscript; large hole caused by rodent through entire manuscript.
Text oriented parallel to the narrow dimension of the leaves.

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 3350 (UP 1471).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1471.

OCLC:

910919274