Details

Other Title:

Tryaṃbakī

Subjects:

Pregnancy -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.
Hindu women.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
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.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9r); alternate title Tryaṃbakī from cover (f. 1r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhaṭṭasūrisūnutryaṃbakapaṃḍitaviracitāyāṃ [ā]śaucanirṇayaḥ // (f. 9r).
Dated śaka 1734 (1812) (f. 9r).
Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 9r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words, phrases and verse numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double 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 3023 (UP 1578).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1578.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

927414202