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

Title

Authors

• Parāśara

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967588903503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927414310
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6758890

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a set of law codes (dharma) that are said to be especially suited for the fourth and current cosmic age (yuga) called the Kāli yuga (f. 1v) and explains why it is less appropriate for previous cosmic ages; work discusses rules surrounding gift giving, eating, proper conduct for kings, and more.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 38r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 37 leaves foliated 1-12, 14-38, lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1699 (1777) (f. 38r) and śaka 1706 (1784) (f. 1r).
   
• 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.
   
• Watermark of the initials C and B along with part of a coat of arms or related emblem across two folios (f. 21-22).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Food--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Early works to 1800
• Dharma--Early works to 1800
• Yugas--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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