Details

Other Title:

Kālamādhava

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a philosophical discussion of time and the rules (Hindu law, dharma) that govern the performance of various religious observances, especially Vedic rituals. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 16v); alternate title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
64 leaves foliated 1-50, 19-32, upper left and lower right verso; starting at folio 33 a secondary set of numbers is written on the top left and continues through the last leaf of the manuscript, 1-32. The primary foliation ends at folio 50 which corresponds with folio 18 of the secondary foliation.
Colophon: iti mādhavīye kālanirṇaye upoddhātaprakaraṇaṃ prathamam // (f. 16v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 3040 (UP 1664).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1664.

OCLC:

932463839