Details

Other Title:

Dānaratna.

Subjects:

Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) for use by a host priest or sacrificer (yajamāna) for the performance of rites and ceremonies related to gift giving.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Dānaratna from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 1-2 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dānaratne tulādāna prayogaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out.
Scribe is Kṛṣṇa Maṭṭa (f. 2v).

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 3120 (UP 1397).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1397.

Contributor:

Kṛṣṇa Maṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

910116933