Details

Other Title:

Manusmṛtiṭīkā. Adhyāya 11

Subjects:

Manu (Lawgiver). Mānavadharmaśāstra.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
India -- Religious life and customs.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a later copy of an 11th- or 12th-century commentary on the eleventh chapter of the Manusmṛti, also known as the Mānavadharmaśāstra, a 1st-century work on Hindu law (dharma), rites, customs, and religious life of that period.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 36r); alternate title Manusmṛtiṭīkā from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
36 leaves foliated 1-36, lower right verso.
Manuscript was originally part of a larger manuscript that included Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1604, Item 1605, Item 1606, Item 1607, Item 1608, Item 1609, Item 1610, Item 1611, Item 1612, Item 1613, and Item 1615.
Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭamādhavātmajagoviṃdarājaviracitāyāṃ manvāśayānusāriṇyāṃ manuṭIkāyāṃ catruvarṇajātīnāmādhārādh[?]rarupiṇyāṃ mekādaśo 'dhyāyaḥ // śrīgopījanavallābhāyanamonamaḥ // śrībhaṃbavatuḥ // (f. 36r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 2914 (UP 1614).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1614

OCLC:

928639770