Vedoktapitṛsūkta, 1806.
वेदोक्तपितृसूक्त

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Candravallabha, dedicatee.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.

Ancestor worship--Hinduism.

Ancestor worship.

Vedic literature.

Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

hymns

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Written for the abolution ceremony (udaka) of Candravallabha (the dedicatee), likely at his funeral (f. 31r).

Physical Description:

1 item (31 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 27 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 175

Place of Publication:

1806.

१८०६.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a collection or compendium of Vedic hymns dedicate to ancestors, to be employed during Hindu funeral services. Manuscript was likely used in a funeral rite.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 31r).

Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.

31 leaves foliated 1-31, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti vedoktaṃ pitṛ sūktam // (f. 31r).

Dated saṃvat 1863 and śaka 1728 (1806) (f. 31r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in red and black; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

Formerly housed with item 173 and item 174.

Bound on top horizontal.

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 409 (UP 175).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 175

OCLC:

819546349