Details

Subjects:

Hindu law.
Dharma.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu astrology.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Vratas.
Widows (Hindu law).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of Hindu laws, rules, and procedures for various beliefs, ideas, and practices that include astrology, marriage, food, fasting, observances (vratas), and widowhood.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 292r).
Written in 8-14 lines per leaf.
292 leaves foliated 1-292, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadanaṃtadevasūtāpadevatanayenānaṃtadevena viracite smṛtikaustubhe saṃskāradīdhitiḥ samāptim agamat // graṃthasaṃkhyā 8000 // śrīrastu // (f. 292r).
Scribe is Rāmacandra Abhidheya (f. 292v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red through some of the manuscript; vertical margins marked with double black and red line.
Single wooden board with slightly beveled edge supports manuscript.

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 2822 (UP 1575).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1575.

Contributor:

Rāmacandra Abhidheya, scribe.

OCLC:

927413072