Details

Subjects:

Recitations.
Hinduism.
Dharma.
Dharma -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu law.
Sanskrit literature.
Recitations -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Work is attributed to two brothers named Śaṅkha and Likhita (f. 2r), authors of Dharmasūtra literature and thought to have lived before the 5th century A.D., most likely in the 3rd century A.D. The authors are briefly mentioned in a number of other smṛti works as well as in the Śānti parvan (chapter 24) of the Mahābhārata. The Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa names their parents as Jaigīṣavya and Ekaparṇā.

Summary:

Manuscript is for private reflection on religious law (smṛti). Concerns the spread of "dharmaśāsa" or "command of dharma," with offerings to all the gods (vaiśvadeva), with recitation (japa), rites of the āhitāgni (sacrificer), procuring personal gain, and other things. Text opens with a mantra dedicated to the deity Śiva.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śaṃkhalikhitasmṛtiḥ samāptaḥ śrīsarakhatigaṃgājīdrajamunā sa[ṃ]vat 1818 miti purāsudipaṃcamivāraguravāra śrīkṛṣṇā (f. 2r).
Dated saṃvat 1818 (1761) (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out; 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 2964 (UP 265).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 265

Contains:

Likhita, attributed name.

OCLC:

801653335