Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Nārāyaṇa Raghunātha.

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. 3v).
Written in 14-21 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-2, [3], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīnārāyaṇātmajaraghunāthasūnūtryaṃbakaviracitāśaucanirṇayaḥ samāptaḥ (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 3021 (UP 290).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 290

OCLC:

828639339