Details

Other Title:

Tryaṃbakī

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu women.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.
Pregnancy -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Pregnancy -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu women -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law.
Dharma -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual or treatise used for consultation and is a text on the rules (religious laws, dharma) governing the removal of impurities, especially those related to pregnancy. One marginal drawing, probably a jackfruit (f. 4v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6r); alternate title Tryaṃbakī from cover (f. 1r).
Written in 12-14 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti tryaṃbakīye āśaucanirṇaye paṃcanavatitamoṃśaḥ // (f. 6r).
Dated śaka 1701 (1779) (f. 6r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with triple red line.

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 3022 (UP 1576).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1576.

OCLC:

927413662