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Rudranyāsa, 1814.
रुद्रन्यास
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 94
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Rudra (Hindu deity).
- Rudra.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Written by Sonabhaṭṭamoravaṇīkaravāghopanāmaka (f. 14v) and formerly owned by Sonabhaṭṭamoravaṇīkara (f. 1r), likely the same person.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (14 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 94
- Place of Publication:
- 1814.
- १८१४.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Ritual text teaching how to touch parts of the body while reciting Vedic mantras to Rudra taken from the Taittirīyasaṃhitā.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Mahānyāsa supplied from colophon (f. 14v).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti mahānyāsapustakaṃ likhitaṃ sonabhaṭṭamoravaṇīkaravāghopanāmakena svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca // mi - bhādrapadakṛṣṇe 7 iṃduvāsare sa[ṃ]vat 1871 // patrasaṃkhyā 14 // śrīsāṃbasadāśivārpaṇamastu // (f. 14v).
- Dated saṃvat 1871 (1814) on Monday the 7th of Bhādrapada (August-September) (f. 14v).
- Mistakes covered over in orange or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; accents given in red.
- Non-Latin script record.
- 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 97 (UP 94).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 94
- OCLC:
- 758900683
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