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Title

Mānavadharmaśāstra.
मानवधर्मशास्त्र

Authors

• Manu (Lawgiver)
• Kullūkabhaṭṭa

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1666
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968215503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/932526166
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6821550

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a copy of a 1st-century work on Hindu law (dharma), rites, customs, and religious life of that period. Kullūkabhaṭṭa's commentary Manvarthamuktāvalī runs parallel above and below the root text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 241r); alternate title Mānusmṛti, supplied by cataloger; title of commentary Manvarthamuktāvalī from colophon (f. 241r).
   
• Paper cover with unrelated text used to support the manuscript.
   
• Written in 11-18 lines per leaf.
   
• 241 leaves foliated 1-241, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse numbers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.
   

Extent

1 item (241 leaves) : 18 x 34 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti mātave dharmaśāstre bhṛguproktāyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ dvādaśo 'dhyāyaḥ 12 (f. 241r).

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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