Details

Subjects:

Hindu law.
Dharma.
Death -- Religious aspects.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for consultation and is a collection and commentary on rules and laws (Dharma) related to impurities, such as those associated with death.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 22v).
Written in lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīrāmacaṃdācāryaviracitāyāṃ āśaucatriṃśacchlokyāṃṭīkāsamāptaṃ // likitaṃ cove aṇaṃdarāmagujarāti udīcyajñātīṭoḍāni saṃvāyachai // ātmapaṭhanārthaṃ bhaṭajīśrīkāsināthajīnīpothichajīvācaitenerāmarāma // vasviṃdvadriniśākaraiḥ parimitekṣemāsicorjjesite pakṣe caṃdrasame tithau raviyute bhogyātmajoyājñikaḥ // śrīmadvaṃśapure śubhe kuśalasiṃhe cārāje sthite vighāyāmavalaṃ vadhīḥ prabhuramuṃ savyākhyakaṃvyā likhat // mītīposivadī 8 śanivāsare saṃvat 1821 nīśālapothilikhithajīrāma (f. 22r-22v).
Dated saṃvat 1821 (1764) (f. 22v).
Scribe is Cove Aṇandarāma Gujarāti (f. 22v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 3038 (UP 291).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 291

Contributor:

Cove Aṇandarāma Gujarāti, scribe.

OCLC:

828633716