Details

Other Title:

Saṃnyāsavidhi.
Saṃnyāsagrahaṇa.

Subjects:

Asceticism -- Hinduism.
Asceticism -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Rules for assuming or practicing asceticism.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8v); alternate titles Saṃnyāsavidhi from rubric (f. 1v) and Saṃnyāsagrahaṇa from title pages (f. 1r, 9v).
Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti sa[ṃ]nyaśagrahanavidhi samāptaṃ // saṃvat 1790 śālacaitravadi amāvāsyāravivāsare kāsīṃ sthitaḥ / iti śrīparamahaṃ haṃsaparivrājansār[?] śrīmadvāsudevānaṃdasarasvatīli[khi]ta[ṃ] pustakam idaṃ // paṭṭaṣṭyāstadā lekhyamamadoṣo nadīpate (f. 8v-9r).
Dated saṃvat 1790 (1733) in Caitra (March-April) in the dark half of the month on Sunday on the night of the new moon (f. 9r).
Scribe is Vāsudevānanda Sarasvatī (f. 9r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Non-Latin script record.

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 3190 (UP 87).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 87

Contributor:

Vāsudevānandasarasvatī, Swami, 1854-1914, scribe.

OCLC:

758850226