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Āśvalāyanasmṛti, circa 1753.
आश्वलायनस्मृति
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1642
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Āśvalāyana.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Dharma.
- India.
- Dharma--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu law--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu law.
- Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800.
- Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.
- Gifts.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Lakṣmaṇabhaṭṭa Karva (f. 1r).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (37 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1642
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1753.
- १७५३.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a Hindu law code for performing various ancient rites and ceremonies such as gift giving and others from the traditional school (śākhā) associated with Āśvalāyana.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
- Likely date around or after 1753 based on a related manuscript with the same scribe and owner (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1641, f. 32r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with triple black 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 2828 (UP 1642).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1642.
- OCLC:
- 931704977
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