Details

Other Title:

Dinakaroddyota.

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hinduism -- Customs and practices.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Rāmakṛṣṇa Bhaṭṭa, grandson of Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, great-grandson of Rāmeśvara Bhaṭṭa; his son Gāgābhaṭṭa, also known as Viśveśvara, is said to have been the guru of the Marathi king Śivāji; contains a table of contents (anukramaṇikā) (f. 1-3).

Summary:

A compendium of legal and religious observances such as ceremonies and observances (vrata) performed during the intercalary (13th) month, rites for particular auspicious days, for astrological signs, conjunctions of celestial bodies, etc.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 99v); alternate title Dinakaroddyota in table of contents colophon (f.3v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
103 leaves foliated 1-3, 1-100, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadrāmeśvarabhaṭṭasūtisūnuśrīmannārāyaṇabhaṭṭasutarāmakṛṣṇabhaṭṭātmajabhaṭṭadinakarakṛte dinakaradyote vidhānāni // śrījagadaṃbasamartha // śake 1735 tāraṇanāmasaṃvatsare dakṣiṇāyane hemaṃtaddataumāsottamamāse mārgaśīrṣakṛṣṇatrayodaśītaddine anaṃtabhaṭṭātmajapāṃduraṃgabhaṭṭayevalakareṇa likhitaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīsāṃbasadāśivārpaṇamastū // svārthaparopakārārthaṃ ca // yāddaśa (f. 99v-100r).
Dated śaka 1735 (1813) (f. 100r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
Wrapping notes that Dinakarabhaṭṭa is an alias of Gāgābhaṭṭa, which differs from the identification elsewhere of Gāgābhaṭṭa as the son of Dinakarabhaṭṭa.
Scribe is Pāṇduraṅgabhaṭṭa Yevalakara, son of Anantabhaṭṭa Yevalakara (f. 100r), likely from Maharashtra.
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 2851 (UP 767).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 767

Contributor:

Pāṇduraṅgabhaṭṭa Yevalakara, scribe.

OCLC:

761739523