Āśaucanirṇaya, circa 1700-1850
आशौचनिर्णय, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- Manuscript is a kind of manual or treatise used for consultation and is a text on the rules (religious laws, Dharma) governing the removal of impurities, especially those related to pregnancy.
- Creator
- Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita (attributed name)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Pregnancy -- Religious aspects
- Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism
- Hindu women
- Dharma
- Hindu law
- Sanskrit language -- Grammar
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 20 cm
- Notes
- 17th-century Sanskrit grammarian and commentator who lived in Maharashtra.
- Title from colophon (f. 7v).
- Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
- 7 leaves foliated 1-7, lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti padavā [???] pramāṇajñaśrīlakṣīdhareṃ sūreḥ sūnunā bhaṭojidīkṣitena racita āśaucanirṇayaḥ samāptaḥ // saṃkhyā // 120 // śrīrāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāma (f. 7v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line. Foliation written in pencil in Western script.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3319s589
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 287
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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