History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s79.4

v1.c6.s79.4

There is a ms. of the Dānoddyota in the Ānandāśrama collection at Poona (No. 2378). The following are the subjects treated of :- eulogy of *dāna*; the nature of *dāna*, various kinds of *dānas*; the constituent elements (*aṅgāni*) of *dāna*; the donor, proper persons for gifts, persons undeserving of gifts, what things cannot be given away, proper and improper times and places for *dāna*, measures of corn and other substances and weights and units of length &c., finding out the east and other directions, characteristics of a *toraṇa*, *patākā* and *maṇḍapa*, *tulā-puruṣa* (weighing oneself against gold or silver), gift of a thousand cows and other magnificent gifts, dedication of a tank or well and planting of a garden &c. In this work the author refers to Kalpataru and to Hemādri as a dākṣiṇātyanibandhakāra.