Details

Subjects:

Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Ritual text (Nyāsa) for constructing a mental body with the planets; comprised of various Vedic mantras and evocations of Vedic deities.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6v).
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti navagrahanyāsaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 6v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins.
Non-Latin script record.

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 402 (UP 90).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 90

OCLC:

758891518