Iṣe tvā ūrjje tvā, circa 1700-1850.
इषे त्वा ऊर्ज्जे त्वा

Format:

• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Nārāyaṇa Gālane, former owner.

Standardized Title:

• Vedas. Yajurveda. Kr̥ṣṇayajurveda (Taittirīyasaṃhitā). Āṣṭaka 1.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Rites and ceremonies--India.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• India.
• Hinduism--Rituals.
• Hindu mythology.

Genre:

• manuals (instructional materials)
• hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

• Formerly owned by Nārāyaṇa Gālane, likely from the Nāsik district in Maharashtra.

Physical Description:

1 item (104 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 5

Other Title:

Prathamāṣṭakapadāni.

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Vedic ritual text containing early examples of Hindu mythology and the procedures for building a great fire altar, animal sacrifices, and other kinds of rituals; words are parsed throughout the manuscript without the use of sandhi.

Notes:

• Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Prathamāṣṭakapadāni from colophon (f. 104v).
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
• 104 leaves foliated 1-104, lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti prathamāṣṭakapadāni samāptāni // nārāyaṇagālanekarasyedaṃ pustakaṃ // (f. 104v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; accents given in red; decorative floral border on front cover (f. 1r).
• May have been housed at an earlier time with Item 2, Item 3, and Item 6.
• 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 78 (UP 5).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 5

OCLC:

773057573