Vivāhatattva circa 1750-1899

Contributor:

Gaurīkānta Devaśarmmaṇa (scribe)

Name:

Raghunandana Bhaṭṭācārya, active 16th century

Date:

1750

Description:

Manual with instructions and rules (dharma) for rites and ceremonies related to marriage. Contains a commentary running above and below the root text.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Dharma; Rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh; Rites and ceremonies

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Commentaries; Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48 leaves) : illustrations

Geographic Subject:

Bangladesh

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rights Note:

Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

Notes:

The son of Harihara Bhaṭṭācārya (f. 54v).; Written in 4-5 lines per folio.; 48 leaves foliated 1-13, 20-54, middle right verso; there is one photo of the newspaper wrapping with notes.; Title from colophon (f. 54v); alternate title Udvāhatattva from wrapper notes.; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; Notes and numbers on manuscript in modern Bengali hand: Kra: 6059; Dharmma: 822.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 36 cm.; Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.; Scribe is Gaurīkānta Devaśarmmaṇa (f. 54v).; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1581