Details

Subjects:

Vedas.
Dharma.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Food -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Mokṣa.
Vedas -- Early works to 1800.
Mokṣa -- Early works to 1800.
Food -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Dharma -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a set of law codes (dharma) that highlights the importance of studying the Vedas; work discusses rules surrounding different kinds of rites and ceremonies, gift giving, eating, proper conduct, and more; especially those activities related to achieving release (mokṣa) from the cycle of life and death (a form of Hindu salvation).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 15r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
15 leaves foliated 1-15, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dakṣasmṛti samāptā // (f. 15r).
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 black line; decorative border drawn on front and back title pages (f. 1r and f. 15v).
Watermark of the initials C and B along with part of a coat of arms or related emblem across two folios (f. 9-10).
Dated around śaka 1699-1706 (1777-1784) based on the dates of Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1579 (f. 1r and 38r), written by the same scribe on the same paper.

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 2849 (UP 1581).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1581.

OCLC:

927414515