Cāturmāsyavratanirṇaya, 1830.
चातुर्मास्यव्रतनिर्णय

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Bathing customs.

Hinduism.

Seasons--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Seasons.

Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Fasting.

Bathing customs--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Vratas.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (31 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1586

Place of Publication:

1830.

१८३०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a compendium of various rites and observances (vratas) and is a manual for those performed at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year and includes rites of fasting (vrata), bathing, and others. There is a table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript (Part 1, f. 1-3).

Contents:

Table of Contents (Part 1, f. 1-3)

Cāturmāsyavratanirṇaya (Part 2, f. 1-28).

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).

Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.

31 leaves foliated 1-3, 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.

Dated śaka 1752 (1830) (f. 28v).

Mistakes blacked out; minor corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with triple red line.

Blue, European-made paper with the watermark Leonard M. on several folios.

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 3211 (UP 1586).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1586.

OCLC:

927414805