Details

Subjects:

Pregnancy -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu law.
Hindu women.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or treatise used for consultation and is a text on the rules (religious laws) governing the removal of impurities, especially those related to pregnancy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī āṃgirasamudgalakulajaladhisudhāṃśupadavākyapramāṇapārāvārapārīṇayāyajūkaśiro-ratnanārāyaṇātmajaraghunāthasūrisūnutryaṃbakapaṃḍitaviracitāśaucanirṇayaḥ samāptaḥ // śrīrāmārpaṇam astu // saṃvat 1934 śakaḥ 1799 āṣāḍhakṛṣṇa 7 bhaume idaṃ tryaṃbakīyāśaucanirṇayapustakaṃ samāptam // śrīrāmacaṃdrārpaṇam astu // (f. 7r).
Dated saṃvat 1934 and śaka 1799 (1877) (f. 7r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 3020 (UP 263).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 263

OCLC:

826017192