Dīpaprayogaratnākara, circa 1700-1850.
दीपप्रयोगरत्नाकर

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Puja (Hinduism).

Hindu mantras.

Hindu law.

Dharma.

Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Gifts.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (36 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 589

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation, study and prayer in the course of worship and gives the rules and regulations (Hindu law/Dharma) that govern such rites; thus it functions as a kind of handbook. Topics include the offering of 16 different kinds of gifts as well as collects various mantras for use in worship. Manuscript is incomplete and the contemporary foliation is sporadic and uneven.

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations throughout.

Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.

36 leaves foliated, irregular contemporary foliation, upper left and lower right verso.

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.

Notes on paper and bindings or wrappings.

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 2989 (UP 589).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 589

OCLC:

857174274