Vāstuśāntiprayoga, circa 1700-1850.
वास्तुशान्तिप्रयोग

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa Bhaṭṭa, active 1690.

Contributor:

• Nīlakaṇṭha Tanūja, former owner.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Āśvalāyanagr̥hyasūtra.
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
• Hinduism--Rituals.

Genre:

• Texts.
• commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

• The manuscript was commissioned in Kāśī (Vārānasi) by Nīlakaṇṭha Tanūja.

Physical Description:

1 item (12 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 71 (Part 2)

Other Title:

Rudrasnāna.

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author named in manuscript as Bhaṭṭarāmakr̥ṣṇa (f. 12v).

Summary:

Commentary on ritual, based on the Aśvalāyanagṛhyasūtra.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 12v); alternate title Rudrasnāna from Poleman.
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
• 12 leaves foliated bottom right verso.
• Colophon: iti bhaṭṭarāmakr̥ṣṇa[?]vita[?] āśvalāyanagṛhyoktavāstūśāṃtiprayogaḥ // (f. 12v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out, some corrections in margins, text highlighted in red throughout, vertical margins marked with double red line; notes referring to provenance and original owner of manuscript in second hand (f. 12v).
• 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 3240 (UP 71, Part 2).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 71 (Part 2)

OCLC:

756044886