Āśaucanirṇaya, 1779.
आशौचनिर्णय

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Tryaṃbaka Paṇḍita.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Dharma.

Hindu women.

Purity, Ritual--Hinduism.

Pregnancy--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Pregnancy--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.

Purity, Ritual--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.

Hindu women--Early works to 1800.

Hindu law--Early works to 1800.

Hindu law.

Dharma--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1576

Other Title:

Tryaṃbakī

Place of Publication:

1779.

१७७९.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual or treatise used for consultation and is a text on the rules (religious laws, dharma) governing the removal of impurities, especially those related to pregnancy. One marginal drawing, probably a jackfruit (f. 4v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6r); alternate title Tryaṃbakī from cover (f. 1r).

Written in 12-14 lines per leaf.

6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti tryaṃbakīye āśaucanirṇaye paṃcanavatitamoṃśaḥ // (f. 6r).

Dated śaka 1701 (1779) (f. 6r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with triple red line.

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 3022 (UP 1576).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1576.

OCLC:

927413662