Dānacandrikā, circa 1700-1850.
दानचन्द्रिका

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
• Brahmans.
• Hindu law.
• Dharma.
• Crime--Religious aspects.
• Vishnu (Hindu deity).
• Śiva (Hindu deity).
• Siva (Hindu deity).
• Gods, Vedic.

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (103 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 285

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual or handbook containing the rules and regulations (Hindu law, Dharma) governing the giving and receiving of gifts and donations, such as to and from Brahmans; as well as the rules governing punishments for great crimes (mahāpātaka).

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 103v).
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
• 103 leaves foliated 1-103, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti dānacaṃdrīkāsamāptā // (f. 103v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Contains a nine-sectioned chart of various deities such as the four-armed Viṣṇu or Śiva (the lord of Umā) as well as different Vedic gods (f. 73v); also contains a diagram of concentric circles containing incremental numbers (f. 94v).
• 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 3117 (UP 285).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 285

OCLC:

828101464