Details

Standardized Title:

Ṣaḍaśīti. Selections

Other Title:

Triṃśacchlokī

Subjects:

Purity, Ritual -- 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.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and contains 30 verses (ślokas) derived from a work called the Aśaucanirṇaya; it deals with the removal of impurities through ritual and recitation. This work derives from a large text known as the Aśaucanirṇaya or the Ṣaḍaśīti.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5r); alternate title Triṃśacchlokī, supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity āśaucatriṃśacchlokIsamāptā // (f. 5r).
Dated śaka 1568 (1646) (f. 5r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Scribe is Jaṭārakṛṣṇa Bhaṭṭa (f. 5r).

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 3034 (UP 1647).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1647.

Contributor:

Jatārakṛṣṇa Bhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

931706687