Ahnikaprakāśa, circa 1700-1850.
आह्निकप्रकाश

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Bhāskarabhaṭṭa, active 10th century-11th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Dharma.
• Hindu law.
• Rites and ceremonies--India.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• India.
• Hindu priests.

Genre:

• manuals (instructional materials)
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (81 leaves) : paper ; 28 x 12 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1635

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son of Āpāji Bhaṭṭa and grandson of Haribhaṭṭa (f. 81v).

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual and treatise on Hindu law (dharma) dealing with daily ritual practices to be performed by hotṛ priests.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 81v).
• Written in 7-12 lines per leaf.
• 81 leaves foliated 1-81, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrīmatkāśyapānvayasaṃbhavāgnihotrikulatilakāyamānaśrīharibhaṭṭātmajaśrībhaṭṭāyājibhaṭṭasūnubhāskarakṛta āhnikaprakāśaḥ // (f. 81).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line and double red line on front and back folios (f. 1r and f. 81v).

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 3044 (UP 1635).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1635.

OCLC:

930303743