Details

Other Title:

Saṃvartasmṛti.

Subjects:

Hindu law.
Dharma.
Brahmans.
Asceticism -- Hinduism.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Ancient writer of Dharmaśāstra law codes.

Summary:

Manuscript is a work on dharma, Hindu law codes, dealing with rules and regulations related to renunciant Brahmans, rites of fire sacrifice, and other religious matters.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v); alternate title Saṃvartasmṛti supplied by cataloger.
Written in 6-8 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī saṃvartapraṇītaṃ dharmaśāstraṃ samāptaṃ // śubham astu // sāmaganārāyaṇabhaṭṭasya // (f. 16v).
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 red and black line.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sāmaganārāyaṇabhaṭṭa (f. 16v).

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 2976 (UP 264).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 264

Contributor:

Sāmaganārāyaṇabhaṭṭa, former owner.

OCLC:

826008903