Details

Subjects:

Hindu architecture.
Hindu gods.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Raghu.

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual used by priests and outlining the rules and regulations (Hindu laws, Dharma) governing the summoning and installation of deities into a physical support, especially in the context of architecture such as discussion of diagrams for the foundation of a building (vāstumaṇḍala).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7v).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīraghusūrisūnutrivikramasūriviracitāyāṃ pratiṣṭāpaddhatau tu parigrahaḥ // śubham astusarvajagato giriśaprasādāt // (f. 7v).
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 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 3131 (UP 294).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 294

OCLC:

830001338