Details

Subjects:

Vratas.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.
Telangana (India).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual with associated rules and laws of dharma for the performance of vows/observances (vratas) associated with Vedic rites.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper or lower left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti saṃkalpa // harināṛāyaṇa // mahāsaṃkalpasaṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 11r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Scribe is Kāśīnātha Bhaṭā, the son of Śivarāma Bhaṭā and the grandson of Būbukadharmā Bhaṭā (f. 11r).

Penn Provenance:

Rājiliṅga Bhaṭā may have owned and/or commissioned the manuscript and appears to be from Rāmaḍugu, a town in the Indian state of Telegana (f. 11r).

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 3222 (UP 1356).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1356.

Contributor:

Kāśīnātha Bhaṭā (Son of Śivarāma Bhaṭā), scribe.
Rājiliṅga Bhaṭā, associated name.

OCLC:

909415308