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Title

Śuddhitattva
শুদ্ধিতত্ত্ৱ

Authors

• Raghunandana Bhaṭṭācārya, 16th cent

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 306
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959248533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830697461
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5924853

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used by priests or householders for consultation about the rules and regulations (Hindu law, Dharma) governing rites of purification and includes a section on widow burning (sātī). Part of a larger work on Dharma called the Smṛtitattva.

Notes

• Title from marginal note (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 76 leaves foliated 1-68, 67-74, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Written in brown ink; mistakes crossed out; some corrections and additions in margins in blue ink and pencil.
   
• Most of the manuscript is European stock of paper with watermarks. Written with two or three different scribal hands.
   
• Formerly housed with Item 305.
   

Extent

1 item (76 leaves) : 9 x 43 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism
• Widows (Hindu law)
• Sati
• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

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