2 options
Kapilaṣaṣṭhīvrata, circa 1700-1850.
कपिलषष्ठीव्रत
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2781
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Dharma.
- Hindu law.
- Vratas.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 26 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2781
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Text in the genre of dharmaśāstra literature (Hindu law, dharma), part of a larger treatise or manual containing an observance (vrata) that occurs once every sixty years during the month of Bhadrapada (August-September) when specific astrological events occur. Mentions gift giving. Manuscript lacks an ending.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1r).
- Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
- 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out.
- 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 3207 (UP 2781).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2781.
- OCLC:
- 975834403
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.