Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Tree worship.
Banyan tree -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
India.
Banyan tree -- 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.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) for performing rites constructing banks of earth around a banyan or vaṭa tree (Ficus benghalensis) at the end of a larger observance of rites.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9r).
Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 20r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vaṭodyāpanaprayogaḥ // (f. 9r).
Dated śaka 1716 (1794) (f. 9v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Partial watermark of a commercial design that looks like the crest or base of a coat of arms with the initials A and G.

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 3411 (UP 1402).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1402.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

910639257