University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll 390, Item 285

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS7621

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll 390, Item 285

Title:

Dānacandrikā

Date:

circa 1700-1850.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 11 x 25 cm

Note:

Non-Latin script record.
Colophon: iti dānacaṃdrīkāsamāptā // (f. 103v).
Title from colophon (f. 103v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
103 leaves foliated 1-103, 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. Contains a nine-sectioned chart of various deities such as the four-armed Viṣṇu or Śiva (the lord of Umā) as well as different Vedic gods (f. 73v); also contains a diagram of concentric circles containing incremental numbers (f. 94v).

Keyword:

treatises

manuals (instructional materials)

diagrams

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Siva (Hindu deity)

Crime--Religious aspects

Gifts--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Brahmans

Vishnu (Hindu deity)

Dharma

Hindu law

Gods, Vedic

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959063093503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3tn7n/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania