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Mahāsaṃkalpa, circa 1700-1850.
महासंकल्प
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1356
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vratas.
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Dharma.
- Telangana (India).
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rājiliṅga Bhaṭā may have owned and/or commissioned the manuscript and appears to be from Rāmaḍugu, a town in the Indian state of Telegana (f. 11r).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (11 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1356
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manual with associated rules and laws of dharma for the performance of vows/observances (vratas) associated with Vedic rites.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 11r).
- Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
- 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper or lower left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti saṃkalpa // harināṛāyaṇa // mahāsaṃkalpasaṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 11r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
- Scribe is Kāśīnātha Bhaṭā, the son of Śivarāma Bhaṭā and the grandson of Būbukadharmā Bhaṭā (f. 11r).
- 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 3222 (UP 1356).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1356.
- OCLC:
- 909415308
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