Details

Standardized Title:

Tristhalīsetu. Selections

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a compendium and guide used for consultation by those wanting to learn the benefits (such as liberation at death) of visiting pilgrimage centers in India and the rules and regulations (Hindu law, dharma) that govern them. Contains the introductory section, the Sāmānyapraghaṭṭaka, of a work titled Tristhalīsetu (Bridge to the three holy cities), which deals with three major centers: Kāśī (Varāṇasī), Prayāga (Allahabad), and Gayā. There is a numbered table of contents at the end of the manuscript (Part 2, f. 1-4)

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 130r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
134 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-130, (Part 2) 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadvidvanmukuṭamāṇikyaśrīmadbhaṭṭarāmeśvarasūrisūnubhaṭṭanārāyaṇaviracite tristhalIsetausāmānyapraghaṭṭake prakīrṇatīrthagharmaprakaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ (f. 130r).
Dated śaka 1754 (1832) (f. 130r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Watermarks of G Dickenson 1826 and a coat of arms of Britannia.

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 2856 (UP 1661).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1661.

OCLC:

932255652