Saṃtānagopālamantravidhi, circa 1700-1850; संतानगोपालमन्त्रविधि,१७००-१८५०

Contributor:

Vināyaka Goḍabola (Son of Keśavabhaṭa Goḍabola) (scribe)

Name:

Gopīnāthadīkṣita, active 18th century

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript is a manual of Hindu laws (dharma) guiding the performance of domestic rites and ceremonies, especially those associated with the veneration of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa for the purpose of obtaining offspring and family descendants.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Dharma; Hindu law; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Krishna (Hindu deity); Families -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Treatises; Drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (22 leaves) : paper; 11 x 25 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 418v).; Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.; 22 leaves foliated 397-418, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti saṃtānagopālamaṃtravidhiḥ samāptaḥ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu // idaṃ pustakaṃ goḍabolopanāmakakeśavabhaṭātmajavināyakena likhitaṃ // svārthaṃparārthaṃ // (f. 418v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; doodle of flower on title page (f. 1r).; Scribe is Vināyaka Goḍabola, son of Keśavabhaṭa Goḍabola (f. 418v); the family name is possibly meant to be Goḍabole.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1592

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts