Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

17th-century Sanskrit grammarian, commentator, and writter of śāstra literature who lived in Maharashtra.

Summary:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhaṭṭojidīkṣitakṛtāśaucanirṇayaḥ samāptaḥ / maṃgalaṃ bhagavānviṣṇur maṃgalaṃ garudadhvajaḥ / maṃgalaṃ praṇḍarīkākṣo maṃgalāya tanaṃ hariḥ / śāke 1708 bhādrapadaśuklāṣṭamyāṃ śukre yāmadvayena kṛto 'yaṃ lipinyāsaḥ / śubham // (f. 5v).
Dated śaka 1708 (1786) (f. 5v).
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.

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 3028 (UP 293).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 293

OCLC:

830002905