Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Fever.
India.
Fever -- 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.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and associated rules and laws (dharma) for performing ceremonies and rites to prevent or cure fever (jvara).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti jvaraśāṃtiḥ // (f. 5r).
Dated śaka 1708 (1786) (f. 5r).
Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 5r); likely Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara based on other related manuscripts and their date (for example, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1394).
Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 3247 (UP 1395).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1395.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

910116706