Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964064163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/909568605
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6406416

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manual and treatise, with associated rules and laws (dharma) regarding proper gift giving and related rites and ceremonies. Hanuman the monkey general and an anthropomorphic Garuda, the bird vehicle of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu, are drawn on the front cover (f. 1r)

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 11r); alternate title Dānacandrikā from colophon (f. 11r).
   
• Written in 1-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated 1703 (1781) (f. 11r).
   
• 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 red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Early works to 1800
• Dharma--Early works to 1800
• Hanumān (Hindu deity)--Art--Early works to 1800
• Garuḍa (Mythical bird)--Art--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1377: Meṣadānavidhi are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Ink drawings, f. 1r