Details

Other Title:

Viṣṇusmṛtiṭīkā

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a commentary on the Viṣṇusmṛti, a work on Hindu law (dharma), rites, and customs.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 149r); alternate title Viṣṇusmṛtiṭīkā, from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
149 leaves foliated 1-149, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti viṣṇusmṛtivivṛtau pūrvārdhapaṃcāśatamo 'dhyāyaḥ (f. 149r).
Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with triple red line; written on blue European paper.
Watermark of Prat D.

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 2955 (UP 1649).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1649.

OCLC:

931707180