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Dānamayūkha, circa 1700-1850.
दानमयूख
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1656
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Nīlakaṇṭha, active 17th century.
- Standardized Title:
- Bhagavantabhāskara. Selections
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Gifts.
- Dharma.
- Hindu law.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (211 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1656
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Treatise and manual on Hindu law (dharma) on gift giving and related rites.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 211r).
- Written in 11 lines per leaf.
- 211 leaves foliated 1-211, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīseṃgaravaṃśāvataṃ samahārājādhirājaśrībhagavaṃtadevādiṣṭāmīmāṃsakaśaṃkarabhaṭṭātmajabhaṭṭanīlakhaṃṭhakṛte bhagavaṃtabhāskare dānamayūkhaḥ // ṣaṣṭaḥ // graṃtha // 4800 // śrīrāmacaṃdāyanamaḥ // śubham astu // (f. 211r).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red 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 2872 (UP 1656).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1656.
- OCLC:
- 932255324
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