Details

Standardized Title:

Dharmasindu. Selections

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Families -- History.
Families.
History.
Marriage -- India.
Marriage.
India.
Marriage -- Religious aspects.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Kāśī Upādhyāya, grandson of Anujānanta Upādhyāya, great-grandson of Yajñeśvara Upādhyāya (see colophon in Item 297).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation about the rules and regulations (Hindu law, Dharma) governing cousin marriages (sāpiṇḍa). Manuscript names and lists different kinds of relationships and marriages and includes a table (f. 2v-3r).

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: atha dharmasiṃdhusāre tṛtīyaparichede sāpiṃḍyanirṇayaḥ // (f. 1r).
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; table is made with double black lines (f. 2v-3r)

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 2836 (UP 301).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 301

OCLC:

830005933