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Title

Kṛtyaratnāvalī
कृत्यरत्नावली

Authors

• Rāmacandrabhaṭṭa

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 585
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959998623503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857175388
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5999862

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a collection of rules and regulations (Hindu law) drawn from a variety of Hindu epic and purāṇic sources and compiled together by the other; covers a range of different topics such as auspicious days of the Hindu calendar, the specific days to perform fasting, and various other rites and ceremonies.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 61v).
   
• Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 61 leaves foliated 1-61, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.
   

Extent

1 item (61 leaves) : 11 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmatpadavākyapramāṇābhita tatsadupākhya bālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭāṃgajaviṭhalabhaṭṭavidhabudhavarasūnudharmaśāstrapārāvārīṇa-śrīmadrāmacandrabhaṭṭaviracitā kṛtyaratnāvalī saṃpūrṇā // śubhaṃ bhūyāt (f. 61v).

Subjects topical

• Hindu law
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu astrology

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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