Dānamayūkha

A chapter from the Bhagavantabhāskara (or Smṛtibhāskara), a dharmaśāstra text by Nīlakaṇṭha Bhaṭṭa (c. 1610–1645), son of Mīmāṃsā scholar Śaṅkarabhaṭṭa, grandson of Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, and cousin of Kamalākara Bhaṭṭa. It was composed for his patron Bhagavanta Rāja in 12 chapters (mayūkhas). The colophon refers to Dānamayūkha as the sixth chapter; Kane gives it as the seventh. It deals with different types of donations and their significance in Hindu rituals. The scribe used yellow ink for the corrections. (Written in 11 lines per leaf.; 211 leaves foliated 1–211, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.)