Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law.
Dharma -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual with rules and laws (dharma) associated with rites and ceremonies performed at a sacred pilgrimage center (tīrtha).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 13r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti tīrthavidhiḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 13r).
Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 13r).
Dated śaka 1712 (1790) (f. 13r).
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 red line.
Watermarks with the word America or TALLA AB, possibly a company name.

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 3107 (UP 1392).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1392.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

910116207