Vaṭodyāpanaprayoga, 1794.
वटोद्यापनप्रयोग

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Dharma.

Rites and ceremonies.

Tree worship.

Banyan tree--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

India.

Banyan tree--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.

Tree worship--India--Early works to 1800.

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

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

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1402

Place of Publication:

1794.

१७९४.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) for performing rites constructing banks of earth around a banyan or vaṭa tree (Ficus benghalensis) at the end of a larger observance of rites.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9r).

Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 20r).

Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.

9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti vaṭodyāpanaprayogaḥ // (f. 9r).

Dated śaka 1716 (1794) (f. 9v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Partial watermark of a commercial design that looks like the crest or base of a coat of arms with the initials A and G.

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 3411 (UP 1402).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1402.

OCLC:

910639257