Prāyaścittapaddhati, circa 1650-1799.
प्रायश्चित्तपद्धति

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Darmeśvara (Son of Harihara)

Contributor:

Nārāyaṇa (Son of Nīlakaṇṭha), scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vratas.

Atonement (Hinduism).

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800.

Atonement (Hinduism)--Early works to 1800.

Vratas--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 190

Other Title:

Prāyaścittagrahaṇaprakāra.

Place of Publication:

circa 1650-1799.

१६५०-१८००.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of guide or manual to be used by a priest for consultation during the performance of rites and rituals of atonement as well as for taking on observances (vratagrahaṇa).

Notes:

Scribe is Nārāyaṇa, son of Nīlakaṇṭha, who lived in Vārāṇasī.

Title from colophon (f. 5v); alternate title, Prāyaścittagrahaṇaprakāra, from incipit.

Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti prāyaścittayapaddhati[r yājn̄ikavaryavādivṛṃdavaṃditapādayugalahariharasuta]dharmeśvarakṛtāsamāptimagāt // śrīrstū // kāśyāṃ nīlakaṃṭhasūnunā nārāyaṇena // lekhakapāṭhakayoḥ śivam astu // maṅgalam (f. 5v).

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 3146 (UP 190).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 190

OCLC:

820003786