Details

Other Title:

Tithinirṇaya

Subjects:

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.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astronomy.
Mathematics -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise on Hindu law (dharma) regarding Hindu astronomy (jyotiṣa) and mathematics, examining and considering the nature of a day (tithi) and how it should be calculated within broader cosmological systems, and rites and ceremonies.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 13r); alternate title Tithinirṇaya from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-13, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti tithinirṇayasiṃdhuḥ samāptim agamat // (f. 13r).
Scribe is Govinda, son of Śrīdhara (f. 13r).
Dated saṃvat 1661 (1604) (f. 13r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Godajośī Dhātoṇḍa (f. 13r). The name Dhātoṇḍa may suggest that the manuscript comes from a village in the Punjab region of India with that name or that the former owner originally comes from the district. There is also a reference to Kāśī (Varāṇasī) in the post-colophon text (f. 13r), possibly suggesting that the owner, originally from the Punjab, had settled in Varāṇasī when the manuscript was written.

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 3104 (UP 1655).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1655.

Contributor:

Govinda (Son of Śrīdhara), scribe.
Godajośī Dhātoṇḍa, former owner.

OCLC:

932230682