Saṃskāranirṇaya, circa 1700-1850
संस्कारनिर्णय, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- 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.
- Creator
- Candracūḍa Bhatta Paurāṇika
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- treatises
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Hindu law
- Pregnancy -- Religious aspects
- Hindu women
- Rites and ceremonies -- India
- Rites and ceremonies
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (69 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 69r).
- Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
- 69 leaves foliated 1-69, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīmatpaurāṇikadharmābhaṭṭasūnaśrīmadvidvanmukuṭasāṇikya uṃmaṇabhaṭṭasūrisūnucaṃdracūḍabhaṭṭaviracitaḥ saṃskāranirṇayaḥ samāptimagamat // śrīraghunāthāya namaḥ // (f. 69r).
- 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.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pz8w
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 267
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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