Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Tree worship.
Ficus religiosa -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
India.
Ficus religiosa -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Tree worship -- 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 associated rules and laws (dharma) for performing rites constructing banks of earth around a peepal or aśvattha tree (Ficus religiosa) at the end of a larger observance of rites.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated śaka 1716 (1794) (f. 20r).
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.
Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 20r).
Partial watermark of a possible crest of a coat of arms.

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 3347 (UP 1401).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1401.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

910639205