Details

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

First three chapters of a work on Hindu laws (dharma), customs, rites and ceremonies.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 44v).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
45 leaves foliated 1-45, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīyājñavalkīye dharmaśāstri tṛtīyodhyāyaḥ // (f. 44v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Watermarks of the letters G.V. and perhaps a bull with a large hump and something attached to it, possibly a harness.
Wooden board with one broken corner and writing supports manuscript.

Penn Provenance:

There is reference to a Pandit Sita Ram Mistrie, B.N. Khiste, Pandit Buktanath (?) Sastri, and Pandit Bhauruji, possibly former owners, written on the board.

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 2926 (UP 1623).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1623.

Contributor:

Mistrie, Sita Ram, Pandit, former owner.
Khiste, B.N., former owner.
Sastri, Buktanath, Pandit, former owner.
Bhauruji, Pandit, former owner.

OCLC:

930726707