Yatidharmaprakāśa, circa 1700-1850.
यतिधर्मप्रकाश

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Vāsudevāśrama.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Asceticism--Hinduism.

Asceticism.

Dharma.

Hindu law.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Narmada River (India).

Genre:

treatises

manuals (instructional materials)

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (70 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 20 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1115

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Pupil of Rāmakṛṣṇāśrama (f. 70r).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and reference and is a kind of Hindu rule or law code (dharma) and treatise, outlining the rules and regulations for the procedures and practices of becoming an ascetic or renunciant (yati). Manuscript has a praise mantra dedicated to the Narmadā River at the end of the manuscript (f. 70r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 70r).

Written in 11 lines per leaf.

70 leaves foliated 1-70, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīrāmakṛṣṇāśramapūjyapādaśiṣyavāsudevāśrameṇa muninā viracito 'yaṃ yatidharmaprakāśaḥ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 70r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some in a second scribal hand; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Watermarks bearing the crest of Britannia.

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 3184 (UP 1115).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1115

OCLC:

900198178