Śivadharmaśastra. Śāntikādhyāya, 1810.
शिवधर्मशस्त्र. शान्तिकाध्याय,

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Śrībhavāni Śaṃkara, scribe.

Viṣṇu Datta, former owner.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu law.

Dharma.

Hindu astronomy.

Hindu astrology.

Śaivism.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Viṣṇu Datta (f. 28v).

Physical Description:

1 item (28 leaves) : paper ; 8 x 18 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 715

Place of Publication:

1810.

१८१०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and is a kind of treatise (Hindu law) and astrological work dedicated to the Hindu deity Śiva and deals with procedures and rites for dispelling negative things that enter into a person's life (sickness, financial troubles,demons etc.).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 28r).

Written in 5-7 lines per leaf.

28 leaves foliated 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīśivadharmmaśāstre nandikaśvasaṃvādeśāṃtikādhyāyaḥ sampūrṇaḥ śubham // (f. 28r).

Dated śaka 1732 (1810) (f. 28r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.

Scribe is Śrībhavāni Śaṃkara (f. 28r).

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 3485 (UP 715).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 715

OCLC:

880382379