Vāstuśāntiprayoga, circa 1785.
वास्तुशान्तिप्रयोग

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Āśvalāyanagr̥hyasūtra.

Dharma.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Āśvalāyanagr̥hyasūtra--Early works to 1800.

Dwellings--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Dwellings.

Hinduism--Rituals--Texts--Early works to 1800.

Hinduism.

Hinduism--Rituals.

Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800.

Hindu law--Early works to 1800.

Hindu law.

Dharma--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (15 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1393

Place of Publication:

circa 1785.

१७८५.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) on rituals and ceremonies performed while constructing a home, based on the Aśvalāyanagṛhyasūtra. List at the end of manuscript of materials, implements, and ingredients associated with the rites and ceremonies to be performed.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 8 lines per leaf.

15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti prāsādādauvāstudevatākramaḥ // (f. 14r).

Dated śaka 1707 (1785) (f. 14r).

Mistakes blacked out; significant words and numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Watermarks of a crown on a coat of arms with the initials C.B.C. below it and the word/name VOBNO on some folios.

Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 14r), likely Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara as seen in other related manuscripts (for example, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1392).

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 3257 (UP 1393).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1393.

OCLC:

910183594