Details

Subjects:

Real property.
India.
Property (Hindu law).
Real property -- India -- 17th century.

Form/Genre:

Legal documents.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit and Urdu (Devanāgarī, Bengali, Nasta'liq)

Summary:

Legal document likely pertaining to disputed property between Divākarapaṇḍita and Krṣṇānanda, both named throughout the document; signed by leading pundits of the early 17th century in Vārānasi in a variety of scripts and has the seal and signature of a Mughal officer of Vārānasi.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 16 lines, excluding signatures.
Dated saṃvat 1684 (1627) on the 2nd of the dark half of Vaiśākha (April-May) (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out.
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 5471 (UP 779).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 779

OCLC:

760222175