Bodhāyanacayanaprayoga, 1816.
बोधायनचयनप्रयोग

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Baudhāyana, attributed name.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Rites and ceremonies--India.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• India.
• Hindu altars.
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
• Hinduism--Rituals.

Genre:

• Texts.
• commentaries
• manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (100 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 117

Place of Publication:

• 1816.
• १८१६.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Proported to be a late Vedic-period ritualist and commentator, circa 5th century B.C., but the writtings attributed to this figure are most likely composed by members of a group of Brahmins known as the Baudhāyanīyas, who lived in North India during that period.

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual of ritual instructions for building the fire altar during a Śrauta sacrifice.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 100v).
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
• 100 leaves foliated 1-100, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti bodhāyanacayanaprayogaḥ samāptaḥ // saṃvat 1873 kārtikaśuklapakṣe 4 (f. 100v).
• Dated saṃvat 1873 (Friday, 25 October 1816) (f. 100v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
• 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 228 (UP 117).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 117

OCLC:

813833051