Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1596: Dharmasindhu. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1596: Dharmasindhu. 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/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from title abbreviations in margins. Written in 12 lines per leaf. 29 leaves foliated 1-29, 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. Decorative border on lower cover (f. 29v). Manuscript was originally part of a larger manuscript that included Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1595. Scribe is Bāladīkṣitadeva, son of Anantadeva (f. 29r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1596 9967593803503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927444566 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6759380 Manuscript is the first section (pariccheda) of a larger work on matters pertaining to Hindu religious laws and customs (dharma) and is a compendium of various rules and guidelines governing different Hindu rituals, practices, prayers, and observances (vratas); contains descriptions of systems of time and describes the best times of year to perform various rituals, such as the worship (pūjā) associated with specific deities. In Sanskrit Dharmasindhu. धर्मसिन्धु Kāśīnātha Upādhyāya, -1805 scribe Bāladīkṣitadeva (Son of Anantadeva)

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 1 item (29 leaves) : 12 x 25 cm Ink decorated borders, f. 29v Vratas Puja (Hinduism) Rites and ceremonies--India Dharma Hindu law Manuals (instructional materials) Treatises Drawings (visual works) Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--19th century