Details

Other Title:

Dānavidhi

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Agnihotra (Hindu rite).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a collection of Hindu laws (dharma) focusing on especially gift giving and other rites and ceremonies (example, fire sacrifice or agnihotra). Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 10r); alternate title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
33 leaves foliated 1-33, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭaśaṃkarātmajanīlakaṃṭhakṛte dānaparibhāṣāprayogaḥ (f. 10r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black 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 2871 (UP 1653).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1653.

OCLC:

931736114