Nāndīśrāddhasaṃkalpa, circa 1700-1850.
नान्दीश्राद्धसंकल्प

Format:

• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Nārāyaṇa ( son of Nīlakaṇṭha), scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Rites and ceremonies--India.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• India.
• Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
• Ancestor worship--Hinduism.
• Worship (Hinduism).

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 176

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook to be used by priests or senior family members, which outlines the rules and regulations (Hindu law) for performing rites of veneration to a specific class of deceased ancestors, typically the third generation back.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 9v).
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti nāṃdīśrāddhasaṃkalpyaḥ // likhitam idaṃ kāśyāṃnīlakaṃṭhasūnunānārāyaṇena // śrī // śrī // karakṛtam aparādhaṃ kṣantum arhaṃti saṃtaḥ // (f. 9v).
• Scribe is Nārāyaṇa son of Nīlakaṇṭha from the city of Vārāṇasī (f. 9v).
• 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 black line.
• 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 3274 (UP 176).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 176

OCLC:

819548727