Details

Other Title:

Smṛtitattva. Āhnikācāratattva.

Subjects:

Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Summary:

Manuscript is used by priests or householders for consultation about the rules and regulations governing the daily observance of different practices and kinds of prayers for the purpose of bodily and mental purification. Part of a larger work on Dharma called the Smṛtitattva. Manuscript includes a table of contents on the first two folios.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 97v); other associated title, Smṛtitattva, supplied by cataloger.
Written in 6-8 lines per leaf.
97 leaves foliated 1, 1-7, 7-31, 33-96, middle right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīraghūnandanabhaṭṭācāryaṃ viracitam āhnikācāratattvaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīpūrnnānandaśarmmaṇā samālikhe pūstikā // śrīparadevatāryena saḥ (f. 96v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
Formerly housed with Item 306.
Scribe is Paradevata Ārya (f. 96v).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Pūrnnānanda Śarmmaṇ (f. 96v).

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 2937 (UP 305).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 305

Contributor:

Paradevata Ārya, scribe.
Pūrnnānanda Śarmmaṇ, former owner.

OCLC:

830677496