Details

Subjects:

Viṣṇusmr̥ti.
Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Dharmādhipaṇḍita (f. 178r).

Summary:

Manuscript is a commentary (ṭīkā) on the Viṣṇusmṛti, a work on Hindu law (dharma), rites, and customs.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 178r).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
178 leaves foliated 1-178, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīdharmādhikārīrāmapaṃḍitātmajanaṃdapaṃḍitakṛtau viṣṇusmṛtivivṛtau śrīmatpāṃvaujayaṃtyāṃśatatamodhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 178r).
Dated śaka 1762 (1840) (f. 178r).
Manuscript is written on blue paper made in Europe with watermarks of E. F., possibly other initials, and G. Caprony.
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 2956 (UP 1650).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1650.

OCLC:

931726770