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Ācārārkaprakāśa, circa 1700-1850.
आचारार्कप्रकाश
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1589
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Divākara, active 12th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sun worship.
- India.
- Dharma.
- Hindu law.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Sun worship--India.
- Hindu mantras.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (11 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1589
- Other Title:
- Pūjāvidhānācārārkaprakāśa
- Dharmaśāstrasudhānidhi
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manual and treatise on Hindu law (dharma) likely taken from a much large work or compendium on Dharmaśāstra, possibly the Dharmaśāstrasudhānidhi by the same author; focuses especially on rites and customs related to veneration (pūjā) of the sun through mantras and other religious formulas. Text represents a collection of practices found in other sources such as the Kūrmapurāṇa (f. 2v).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 11r); alternate title Pūjāvidhānācārārkaprakāśa from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrībharadvājamahādevabhaṭṭātmanasakalavidyābhidhānaśrīdivārakṛte ācārārkaprakāśeṣṭadho vibhaktasya divasasya prathamabhāgakṛtyaṃ sanātanaṃcinmayamādivījaṃ saṃsāravṛkṣasya girāmagamyaṃ rāmābhidhaṃjyotiraharniśaṃtadvadakṣakośe sphuranāvyadīye athadvitīyabhāgakṛtyaṃ // (f. 11r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- 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 3043 (UP 1589).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1589.
- OCLC:
- 927414922
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