Details

Other Title:

Pūjāvidhānācārārkaprakāśa
Dharmaśāstrasudhānidhi

Subjects:

Sun worship.
India.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Sun worship -- India.
Hindu mantras.
Puja (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and treatise on Hindu law (dharma) likely taken from a much large work or compendium on Dharmaśāstra, possibly the Dharmaśāstrasudhānidhi by the same author; focuses especially on rites and customs related to veneration (pūjā) of the sun through mantras and other religious formulas. Text represents a collection of practices found in other sources such as the Kūrmapurāṇa (f. 2v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r); alternate title Pūjāvidhānācārārkaprakāśa from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībharadvājamahādevabhaṭṭātmanasakalavidyābhidhānaśrīdivārakṛte ācārārkaprakāśeṣṭadho vibhaktasya divasasya prathamabhāgakṛtyaṃ sanātanaṃcinmayamādivījaṃ saṃsāravṛkṣasya girāmagamyaṃ rāmābhidhaṃjyotiraharniśaṃtadvadakṣakośe sphuranāvyadīye athadvitīyabhāgakṛtyaṃ // (f. 11r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 3043 (UP 1589).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1589.

OCLC:

927414922