Details

Subjects:

Hindu law.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu astrology.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Viṭhalabhaṭṭa and grand son of Bālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭ (f. 61v).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a collection of rules and regulations (Hindu law) drawn from a variety of Hindu epic and purāṇic sources and compiled together by the other; covers a range of different topics such as auspicious days of the Hindu calendar, the specific days to perform fasting, and various other rites and ceremonies.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 61v).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
61 leaves foliated 1-61, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatpadavākyapramāṇābhita tatsadupākhya bālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭāṃgajaviṭhalabhaṭṭavidhabudhavarasūnudharmaśāstrapārāvārīṇa-śrīmadrāmacandrabhaṭṭaviracitā kṛtyaratnāvalī saṃpūrṇā // śubhaṃ bhūyāt (f. 61v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.

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 2943 (UP 585).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 585

OCLC:

857167638