Details

Other Title:

Smṛtitattva. Śuddhitattva.

Subjects:

Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.
Widows (Hindu law).
Sati.
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 (Hindu law, Dharma) governing rites of purification and includes a section on widow burning (sātī). Part of a larger work on Dharma called the Smṛtitattva.

Notes:

Title from marginal note (f. 1r).
Written in 7-11 lines per leaf.
76 leaves foliated 1-68, 67-74, upper left and lower right verso.
Written in brown ink; mistakes crossed out; some corrections and additions in margins in blue ink and pencil.
Most of the manuscript is European stock of paper with watermarks. Written with two or three different scribal hands.
Formerly housed with Item 305.

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 2938 (UP 306).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 306

OCLC:

830697465