Śrāddhasaṃkalpa, circa 1700-1850.
श्राद्धसंकल्प

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

India.

Vedas--Recitation.

Vedas.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--India.

Dharma.

Hindu law.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (13 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2760

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual and treatise (containing laws, dharma) for consultation by those undertaking and performing funeral rites, including recitation of Vedic mantras. Lacks end.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.

13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line. Metrical accents in red in parts of the text containing Vedic verses.

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 3302 (UP 2760).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2760.

OCLC:

974797606