Details

Other Title:

Ṛṣipañcamīvrata.

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Rite (vrata) of ablution and prayer for removing sins for both men and women; dedicated to a group of primordial sages (ṛṣi).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Ṛṣipañcamīvrata supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, middle left and right verso.
Colophon: iti pūjāsamāpta // śake 1742 vikramanāmasaṃvatsa[re] śuklapakṣe bhādrapade masi pratiyadyāyāṃ tithau vāsaraḥ bhṛguvāsare idaṃ pustakaṃ bāpaṭopanāmakamahādevasūtasya triṃbakabhaṭena likhītaṃ sthāthaparopakarārtha (f. 5r).
Dated śake 1742 vikramanāmasaṃvatsare śuklapakṣe bhādrapade masi pratiyadyāyāṃ tithau (Friday, September 8th, 1820) (f. 5r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; decorative floral design drawn in red on front and back (f. 1r, 5v).
Non-Latin script record.
Scribe is Triṃbaka Bāpaṭa son of Mahādeva Bāpaṭa (f. 5r); likely from the Nasik district in Maharashtra.

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 1031 (UP 1417).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1417

Contributor:

Triṃbaka Bāpaṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

773272971