Details

Subjects:

Debt.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Debt -- India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or guide outlining the rules and regulations (Hindu laws) governing the repayment of debts.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti nirṇayoddhāre viśeṣatithinirṇayaḥ samāptaḥ // jejurkaropanāmnā vai viśvanāthasya sūnunā // nirṇayoddhāradhuṃḍena likhitaṃ rāghavaḥ kṛtaḥ // śrīkṛṣṇāya tubhyaṃ namaḥ // (f. 16v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Scribe is Dhuṇḍa (f. 16v).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Viśvanāthasya Jejurkara (f. 16v).

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 2941 (UP 304).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 304

Contributor:

Dhuṇḍa, scribe.
Viśvanāthasya Jejurkara, former owner.

OCLC:

830006029