Details

Subjects:

Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Cows -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Bulls -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rams -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Water buffalo -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Domestic animals -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual of Hindu laws (dharma), rites, and ceremonies surrounding gift giving drawn from several established sources, such as the Brāhmapurāṇa (f. 1v); especially focused on giving different kinds of domestic animals such as cows, bulls, water buffalo (mahiṣī), and rams.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 31v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dānakhaṃḍasaṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 31v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red.
Watermarks of a coat of arms and the initials A and P.

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 3116 (UP 1591).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1591.

OCLC:

927415181