Details

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 colophon (f. 4r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti ṛṣipaṃcamīpūjāsamāptāḥ // śake 1745 jayanāmasa[ṃ]vatsare śrāvapomāse kṛṣṇapakṣe navamyāyātithau maṃdavāsarettadine dāḍekaropanāmakena rāmacadreṇa likhitaṃ // śrīviśveśvarārpaṇamastu // (f. 4r-4v).
Dated śake 1745 jayanāmasaṃvatsare śrāvapomāse kṛṣṇapakṣe navamyāyātithau maṃdavāsarettadine (Saturday, August 30, 1823) (f. 4r-4v).
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.
Scribe is Rāmacadra Dāḍekara (f. 4v).
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 1029 (UP 1413).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1413

Contributor:

Rāmacadra Dāḍekara, scribe.

OCLC:

773274513