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Title

Dinakaradyota
दिनकरद्योत

Authors

• Dinakarabhaṭṭa, fl. 1575-1640

Other related names

• Pāṇduraṅgabhaṭṭa Yevalakara, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 767
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9952014653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761733590
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5201465

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

A compendium of legal and religious observances such as ceremonies and observances (vrata) performed during the intercalary (13th) month, rites for particular auspicious days, for astrological signs, conjunctions of celestial bodies, etc.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 99v); alternate title Dinakaroddyota in table of contents colophon (f.3v).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 103 leaves foliated 1-3, 1-100, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1735 (1813) (f. 100r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
   
• Wrapping notes that Dinakarabhaṭṭa is an alias of Gāgābhaṭṭa, which differs from the identification elsewhere of Gāgābhaṭṭa as the son of Dinakarabhaṭṭa.
   
• Scribe is Pāṇduraṅgabhaṭṭa Yevalakara, son of Anantabhaṭṭa Yevalakara (f. 100r), likely from Maharashtra.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (103 leaves) : 13 x 29 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmadrāmeśvarabhaṭṭasūtisūnuśrīmannārāyaṇabhaṭṭasutarāmakṛṣṇabhaṭṭātmajabhaṭṭadinakarakṛte dinakaradyote vidhānāni // śrījagadaṃbasamartha // śake 1735 tāraṇanāmasaṃvatsare dakṣiṇāyane hemaṃtaddataumāsottamamāse mārgaśīrṣakṛṣṇatrayodaśītaddine anaṃtabhaṭṭātmajapāṃduraṃgabhaṭṭayevalakareṇa likhitaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīsāṃbasadāśivārpaṇamastū // svārthaparopakārārthaṃ ca // yāddaśa (f. 99v-100r).

Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hinduism--Customs and practices

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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