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

Title

Authors

• Āśvalāyana

Other related names

• Karva, Lakṣmaṇabhaṭṭa, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968104873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/931704976
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6810487

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a Hindu law code for performing various ancient rites and ceremonies such as gift giving and others from the traditional school (śākhā) associated with Āśvalāyana.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Likely date around or after 1753 based on a related manuscript with the same scribe and owner (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1641, f. 32r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with triple black line.
   

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Lakṣmaṇabhaṭṭa Karva (f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Dharma--Early works to 1800
• Hindu law--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1642: Āśvalāyanasmṛti are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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