Ratnatulāmahādānaprayoga, circa 1700-1850.
रत्नतुलामहादानप्रयोग

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Gems--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Gems.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Gifts.

Hindu law.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 154

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Rāmeśvara Bhaṭṭa

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual for consultation by Hindu priests or other relevant party. Text sets out rules of conduct or religious laws governing offerings supposed to be equal (tulā) to someone's weight in gems or jewels for the purpose of expiating sins. Text is taken from a larger work called the Mahādānaprayoga, which outlines rules for similar kinds of rites of expiation and offerings of similar great gifts (mahādāna).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7r).

Written in 8 lines per leaf.

7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭarāmeśvarasūrisūnunārāyaṇabhaṭṭakṛtamahādānaprayogaratnatulāmahādānaprayogaḥ // 100 // śrīviśveśvarāya namaḥ // (f. 7r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 3111 (UP 154).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 154.

OCLC:

819409799