Details

Standardized Title:

Pravacanasāroddhāra

Subjects:

Jainism -- Early works to 1800.
Jainism.
Asceticism -- Early works to 1800.
Asceticism.
Tīrthaṅkaras -- Early works to 1800.
Tīrthaṅkaras.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Tables (documents)
Illuminations (painting)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts, Gujarati.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit and Gujarati (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Work on Jaina doctrine (including cosmology, tīrthaṅkaras, siddhis, and asceticism), with an unknown line by line commentary in Gujarati between the lines of Sanskrit text. Manuscript contains a number of tables and paintings on Jain subjects, but also includes paintings typical of Rajasthan, such as a horse rider.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 150r).
Written in 13-20 lines per leaf.
150 leaves foliated 1-150, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpravacanasāroddhārasūtraṃ saṃ[vat] 1709 śrāvaṇavadi 7 ravaujālseradurgośreyo 'stu // (f. 150r).
Dated saṃvat 1709 (1652) (f. 150r).
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 quadruple black line.
Formerly housed as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 3001.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the art historian and University of Pennsylvania professor Stella Kramrisch and sold to the university on April 6, 1959 (notes accompanying manuscript).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Indic 26.

Contributor:

Kramrisch, Stella, 1898-1993, former owner.

OCLC:

951433309