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Title

Piṇḍaviśuddhivṛtti

Call number

Ms. Indic 10
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5831939
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5831939

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript for private or public use and consultation, comprising a Jaina commentary (vṛtti) that interprets the Piṇḍaviśuddhi, a text by Jaina author Jinavallabhagaṇi, a work on food purity and the causes of hunger. Possibly attributed to Mānikyaprabhākācariya.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 26r).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 26 leaves foliated 1-26, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1626 varṣe kārttikasudi 6 (Sunday, 16 October 1569 A.D.) (f. 26r).
   
• 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 12 x 17 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīpiṃḍaviśudhivṛttisaṃpūrṇaḥ // saṃ[vat] 1626 varṣe kārttikasudi 6 maṃdavāre / mu - amarālikhataḥ śrībohīyāmadhya // (f. 26).

Provenance

• Purchased in 1960 from Goculdas Nanjibhai Gandhi of Rajkot, Gujarat.
   

Subjects topical

• Food--Religious aspects--Jainism
• Hunger--Religious aspects--Jainism
• Jainism

Genres

• Commentaries
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--16th century
• Manuscripts--India--16th century

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