Details

Subjects:

Food -- Religious aspects -- Jainism.
Hunger -- Religious aspects -- Jainism.
Jainism.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for private or public use and consultation, comprising a Jaina commentary (vṛtti) that interprets the Piṇḍaviśuddhi, a text by Jaina author Jinavallabhagaṇi, a work on food purity and the causes of hunger. Possibly attributed to Mānikyaprabhākācariya.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 26r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
26 leaves foliated 1-26, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpiṃḍaviśudhivṛttisaṃpūrṇaḥ // saṃ[vat] 1626 varṣe kārttikasudi 6 maṃdavāre / mu - amarālikhataḥ śrībohīyāmadhya // (f. 26).
Dated saṃvat 1626 varṣe kārttikasudi 6 (Sunday, 16 October 1569 A.D.) (f. 26r).
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 black line.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased in 1960 from Goculdas Nanjibhai Gandhi of Rajkot, Gujarat.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Indic 10

OCLC:

811249910