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Title

Dānacandrikā
दानचन्द्रिका

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 285
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959063093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/828101463
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5906309

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a manual or handbook containing the rules and regulations (Hindu law, Dharma) governing the giving and receiving of gifts and donations, such as to and from Brahmans; as well as the rules governing punishments for great crimes (mahāpātaka).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 103v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 103 leaves foliated 1-103, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Contains a nine-sectioned chart of various deities such as the four-armed Viṣṇu or Śiva (the lord of Umā) as well as different Vedic gods (f. 73v); also contains a diagram of concentric circles containing incremental numbers (f. 94v).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (103 leaves) : 11 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti dānacaṃdrīkāsamāptā // (f. 103v).

Subjects topical

• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Brahmans
• Hindu law
• Dharma
• Crime--Religious aspects
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Gods, Vedic

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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