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Title

Saṃskāranirṇaya
संस्कारनिर्णय

Authors

• Candracūḍa Bhatta Paurāṇika

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 267
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958942573503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/826016877
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5894257

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for consultation, perhaps as a kind of handbook or manual for performing various rites and for laying out the rules and regulations associated with them. Begins with a reference to rites for inducing pregnancy.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 69r).
   
• Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 69 leaves foliated 1-69, upper left and 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (69 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmatpaurāṇikadharmābhaṭṭasūnaśrīmadvidvanmukuṭasāṇikya uṃmaṇabhaṭṭasūrisūnucaṃdracūḍabhaṭṭaviracitaḥ saṃskāranirṇayaḥ samāptimagamat // śrīraghunāthāya namaḥ // (f. 69r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu law
• Pregnancy--Religious aspects
• Hindu women
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

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