Details

Subjects:

Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies.
Dharma.
India.
Dharma -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a Hindu law code for performing various ancient rites and ceremonies such as gift giving and others from the traditional school (śākhā) associated with Āśvalāyana.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
Likely date around or after 1753 based on a related manuscript with the same scribe and owner (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1641, f. 32r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with triple black line.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Lakṣmaṇabhaṭṭa Karva (f. 1r).

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 2828 (UP 1642).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1642.

Contributor:

Karva, Lakṣmaṇabhaṭṭa, former owner.

OCLC:

931704977