Details

Subjects:

Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Brahmans.
Hindu law.
Dharma.
Crime -- Religious aspects.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Gods, Vedic.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual or handbook containing the rules and regulations (Hindu law, Dharma) governing the giving and receiving of gifts and donations, such as to and from Brahmans; as well as the rules governing punishments for great crimes (mahāpātaka).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 103v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
103 leaves foliated 1-103, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dānacaṃdrīkāsamāptā // (f. 103v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Contains a nine-sectioned chart of various deities such as the four-armed Viṣṇu or Śiva (the lord of Umā) as well as different Vedic gods (f. 73v); also contains a diagram of concentric circles containing incremental numbers (f. 94v).
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 3117 (UP 285).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 285

OCLC:

828101464