Dharmasindhu. Pariccheda 2, 1858.
धर्मसिन्धु. परिच्छेद २,

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kāśīnātha Upādhyāya, -1805.

Contributor:

Bāladīkṣitadeva (Son of Anantadeva), scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vratas.

Puja (Hinduism).

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Dharma.

Hindu law.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (63 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1595

Place of Publication:

1858.

१८५८.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Kāśī Upādhyāya, grandson of Anujānanta Upādhyāya, great-grandson of Yajñeśvara Upādhyāya according to Ms. Coll. 390, Item 297 (Part 4, f. 69v).

Summary:

Manuscript is the second section (pariccheda) of a larger work on matters pertaining to Hindu religious laws and customs (dharma) and is a compendium of various rules and guidelines governing different Hindu rituals, practices, prayers, and observances (vratas); contains descriptions of systems of time and describes the best times of year to perform various rituals, such as the worship (pūjā) associated with specific deities.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. i recto)

Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.

63 leaves foliated [i], 1-62, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line through the first part of the manuscript. Decorative border on cover (f. i recto).

Manuscript was originally part of a larger manuscript that included Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1596.

Scribe is Bāladīkṣitadeva, son of Anantadeva, based on Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1596 (f. 29r).

Dated śaka 1780 (1858) based on Ms. Coll, 390, Item 1596 (f. 29r).

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 2837 (UP 1595).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1595.

OCLC:

927444733