Kūpaśāntividhi, 1785; कूपशान्तिविधि,१७८५

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (scribe)

Name:

Baudhāyana

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1785

Description:

Manual with the associated rules and laws (dharma) for building structures related to water such as wells, ponds, and tanks and for appeasing Varūṇa, the Vedic deity presiding over water, as well as abiding spirits.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Dharma; Rites and ceremonies; Wells; Hinduism; Varuṇa (Hindu deity); Wells -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800; Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Hinduism -- Rituals; Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800; Hindu law -- Early works to 1800; Hindu law; Dharma -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Treatises; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper; 10 x 21 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).; Written in 11 lines per leaf.; 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti baudhāyanoktaṃ kūpaśāṃtividhiḥ // (f. 2v).; Dated śaka 1707 (1785) (f. 2v).; Mistakes blacked out; metrical accents to aid in recitation through part of manuscript (f. 2r); vertical margins marked with double red line.; Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 2v).; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts