Saṃskāranirṇaya, circa 1700-1850.
संस्कारनिर्णय

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Candracūḍa Bhatta Paurāṇika.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu law.

Pregnancy--Religious aspects.

Pregnancy.

Hindu women.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Genre:

treatises

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (69 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 267

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation, perhaps as a kind of handbook or manual for performing various rites and for laying out the rules and regulations associated with them. Begins with a reference to rites for inducing pregnancy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 69r).

Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.

69 leaves foliated 1-69, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmatpaurāṇikadharmābhaṭṭasūnaśrīmadvidvanmukuṭasāṇikya uṃmaṇabhaṭṭasūrisūnucaṃdracūḍabhaṭṭaviracitaḥ saṃskāranirṇayaḥ samāptimagamat // śrīraghunāthāya namaḥ // (f. 69r).

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 black 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 3310 (UP 267).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 267

OCLC:

826008887