Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Dakṣa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967588993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927414510
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6758899

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a set of law codes (dharma) that highlights the importance of studying the Vedas; work discusses rules surrounding different kinds of rites and ceremonies, gift giving, eating, proper conduct, and more; especially those activities related to achieving release (mokṣa) from the cycle of life and death (a form of Hindu salvation).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 15r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, lower right verso.
   
• 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; decorative border drawn on front and back title pages (f. 1r and f. 15v).
   
• Watermark of the initials C and B along with part of a coat of arms or related emblem across two folios (f. 9-10).
   
• Dated around śaka 1699-1706 (1777-1784) based on the dates of Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1579 (f. 1r and 38r), written by the same scribe on the same paper.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Mokṣa--Early works to 1800
• Food--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Dharma--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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