Details

Other Title:

Kuṣmāṇḍīvrata.

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu mantras.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Childbirth -- Religious aspects.
Vratas.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Rites, prayers, and mantras propitiating the Hindu deities Śiva, Umā (Pārvatī) and others; for securing a successful childbirth; includes rites connected to a pumpkin-gourd (kuṣmāṇḍa).

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate spelling of title, Kuṣmāṇḍīvrata, supplied by cataloger.
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, lower right verso and lower right recto; also foliated 13-14, upper left verso.
Colophon: iti kuśmāṃḍīvrataṃ samāptaṃ (f. 2v).
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.
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 1040 (UP 1673).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1673

OCLC:

773695740