Details

Standardized Title:

Saṃskāraratnamālā. Selections

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Families -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual of Hindu laws (dharma) guiding the performance of domestic rites and ceremonies, especially those associated with the veneration of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa for the purpose of obtaining offspring and family descendants.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 418v).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 397-418, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti saṃtānagopālamaṃtravidhiḥ samāptaḥ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu // idaṃ pustakaṃ goḍabolopanāmakakeśavabhaṭātmajavināyakena likhitaṃ // svārthaṃparārthaṃ // (f. 418v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; doodle of flower on title page (f. 1r).
Scribe is Vināyaka Goḍabola, son of Keśavabhaṭa Goḍabola (f. 418v); the family name is possibly meant to be Goḍabole.

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 3316 (UP 1592).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1592.

Contributor:

Vināyaka Goḍabola (Son of Keśavabhaṭa Goḍabola), scribe.

OCLC:

927442669