Details

Standardized Title:

Puruṣārthacintāmaṇi. Pārthivaliṅgapūjāvidhi.

Other Title:

Pārthivapūjāvidhilaghuprayoga

Subjects:

Puja.
Tantrism.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.

Local subjects:

Pṛthivī (Hindu deity). (search)
Liṅga worship. (search)

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v, line 3). A second tract of text in five lines follows colophon, entitled Pārthivapūjāvidhilaghuprayoga (title from second colophon, f. 3v, line 8). Poleman catalogs the ms. under the latter title.
Written 11 lines per leaf.
Good condition. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophon, and some words.
Begins: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ācamya prāṇān āyamya sumukhaś cetyādisaṁkalpaṁ kṛtvā śrutismṛtipurāṇoktaphalaprāptyarthaṁ śrīsāṁbasadāśivaprītyarthaṁ pārthivaliṁgapūjanam ahaṁ kariṣye tatrādau nirvighnatāsidhyarthaṁ mahāgaṇapatismaraṇaṁ kariṣye śarīraśudhyaṁrthaṁ[!] puruṣasūktapaṭhanaṁ śivapaṁcākṣaranyāsāṁś ca kariṣye
Ends (f. 3v): kṛtena pārthivaliṁgapūjanena śrīparameśvaraḥ prīyatāṁ itīśvarāyārpayet
Colophon, f. 3v, line 2-3: iti baudhāyanakalpavṛddhavasiṣṭhalaiṁgānusārī pārthivaliṁgapūjāvidhiḥ puruṣārthaciṁtāmaṇau vistāreṇa pūjā śrīsāṁbasadāśivārpaṇam astu
New text begins, f. 4v, line 4: iti pārthivalaghuprayoga likhyate
Colophon, f. 4v, line 8: pārthivaṁpūjāvidhilaghuprayogaḥ śrīsāṁbārpaṇam astu

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 4481 (UP 1594).
Listed in N. Veezhinathan, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 12 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1988), p. 53.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1594

OCLC:

417804352