Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Wells.
Hinduism.
India.
Varuṇa (Hindu deity).
Wells -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- 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 with the associated rules and laws (dharma) for building structures related to water such as wells, ponds, and tanks and for appeasing Varūṇa, the Vedic deity presiding over water, as well as abiding spirits.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti baudhāyanoktaṃ kūpaśāṃtividhiḥ // (f. 2v).
Dated śaka 1707 (1785) (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; metrical accents to aid in recitation through part of manuscript (f. 2r); vertical margins marked with double red line.
Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (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 3239 (UP 1399).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1399.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

910639136