Details

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
Sacred space.
India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Sacred space -- India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Bathing customs -- India.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Seventeenth-century Sanskrit grammarian and commentator who lived in Maharashtra.

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a summary or "essence" (sārasaṃgraha) of another work, the Tristhalīsetu (Bridge to the three holy cities) by Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, focusing on the problem of overcoming death. Discusses the benefits that can result from visiting different pilgrimage sites, bathing there, along with other rites. Makes frequent reference to purāṇic works such as the Brahmāpurāṇa and Skandapurāṇa. Colophon (f. 31 v) is followed by several purāṇic verses.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 32r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭojidīkṣitastrithalīsetusārasaṃgrahasamāptaḥ śubham astu (f. 32r).
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.
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 2895 (UP 275).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 275

OCLC:

826712334