Śūdrāhnika, circa 1700-1850.
शूद्राह्निक

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Rites and ceremonies--India.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• India.
• Hindu law.
• Shudras.
• Caste--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
• Dharma.

Genre:

• manuals (instructional materials)
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 269

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook about the rules that regulate the dharma of and daily rites and ceremonies to be performed by low-caste workers (śūdras).

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 8r).
• Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.
• 7 leaves foliated 2-8, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śudradharmatatve śūdrāhnikaṃ (f. 8r).
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and colophon 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 3067 (UP 269).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 269

OCLC:

826008790