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

Title

Āhnikācāratattva
আহ্নিকাচারতত্ত্ৱ

Authors

• Raghunandana Bhaṭṭācārya, 16th cent

Other related names

• Paradevata Ārya, scribe
• Pūrnnānanda Śarmmaṇ, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 305
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959248513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830696974
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5924851

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used by priests or householders for consultation about the rules and regulations governing the daily observance of different practices and kinds of prayers for the purpose of bodily and mental purification. Part of a larger work on Dharma called the Smṛtitattva. Manuscript includes a table of contents on the first two folios.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 97v); other associated title, Smṛtitattva, supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 6-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 97 leaves foliated 1, 1-7, 7-31, 33-96, middle right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
   
• Formerly housed with Item 306.
   
• Scribe is Paradevata Ārya (f. 96v).
   

Extent

1 item (97 leaves) : 9 x 43 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīraghūnandanabhaṭṭācāryaṃ viracitam āhnikācāratattvaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīpūrnnānandaśarmmaṇā samālikhe pūstikā // śrīparadevatāryena saḥ (f. 96v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Pūrnnānanda Śarmmaṇ (f. 96v).
   

Subjects topical

• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism
• Dharma
• Hindu law
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Table f. 1r