Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Hindu mythology.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Sati.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Devotional rites for gaining merit, wealth, and children, typically performed by women; venerates the Hindu goddess Satī, the wife of Śiva, in the form of a Cuckoo bird (Kokilā); connected to the myth cycle of the Destruction of Dakṣa's Sacrifice.

Notes:

Title from final folio, lines 1-2 (f. 4v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double red line.
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 1042 (UP 1599).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1599

OCLC:

773694819