Details

Subjects:

Hindu law.
Dharma.
Hindu astronomy.
Hindu astrology.
Śaivism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and is a kind of treatise (Hindu law) and astrological work dedicated to the Hindu deity Śiva and deals with procedures and rites for dispelling negative things that enter into a person's life (sickness, financial troubles,demons etc.).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 28r).
Written in 5-7 lines per leaf.
28 leaves foliated 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśivadharmmaśāstre nandikaśvasaṃvādeśāṃtikādhyāyaḥ sampūrṇaḥ śubham // (f. 28r).
Dated śaka 1732 (1810) (f. 28r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Scribe is Śrībhavāni Śaṃkara (f. 28r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Viṣṇu Datta (f. 28v).

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 3485 (UP 715).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 715

Contributor:

Śrībhavāni Śaṃkara, scribe.
Viṣṇu Datta, former owner.

OCLC:

880382379