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Śāntisāra, circa 1650-1800.
शान्तिसार
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 262
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Dinakarabhaṭṭa, active 1575-1640.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Dharma.
- Hindu law.
- Purity, Ritual--Hinduism.
- Diseases--Religious aspects.
- Omens--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (36 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 262
- Other Title:
- Śāntidyota.
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1650-1800.
- १६५०-१८००.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a kind of manual of or treatise on proprietary sacrifices and contains the rules and regulations (Hindu laws, Dharma) governing rites to be performed by a priest or senior household member. Helps to rid the home of sickness and bad omens through the propitiation of various Hindu deities.
- Notes:
- Title from marginal note (f. 2r); alternate title Śāntidyota from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
- 36 leaves foliated 1-13, 15-37, upper left and lower right verso.
- 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 3237 (UP 262).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 262
- OCLC:
- 827598849
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