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Title

Yatidharmaprakāśa
यतिधर्मप्रकाश

Authors

• Vāsudevāśrama

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1115
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963335213503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900198177
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6333521

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and reference and is a kind of Hindu rule or law code (dharma) and treatise, outlining the rules and regulations for the procedures and practices of becoming an ascetic or renunciant (yati). Manuscript has a praise mantra dedicated to the Narmadā River at the end of the manuscript (f. 70r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 70r).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 70 leaves foliated 1-70, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some in a second scribal hand; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Watermarks bearing the crest of Britannia.
   

Extent

1 item (70 leaves) : 11 x 20 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīrāmakṛṣṇāśramapūjyapādaśiṣyavāsudevāśrameṇa muninā viracito 'yaṃ yatidharmaprakāśaḥ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 70r).

Subjects topical

• Asceticism--Hinduism
• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

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