Details

Subjects:

Mahābhārata.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Vratas.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu astrology.
Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).
Arjuna (Hindu mythological character).
Krishna (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Discusses the significance of observing fasting rites, visiting pilgrimage sites (yātra), etc. on specific days, especially the Ekādaśī or the 11th day of a 15-day lunar cycle during specific constellations (e.g., Kārtika, Mārgaśīṣa, etc.); drawn from various Purāṇas and presented as a discussion between different mythological figures featured in the Mahābhārata, such as the legendary king Yudhiṣṭhira and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, or Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa; manuscript is incomplete and front cover has noted 66 folios (patra), thus more than half of manuscript is missing.

Contents:

Brahmavaivartapurāṇa
Skandapurāṇa
Amapurāṇa
Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa
Sauparṇapurāṇa
Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa
Skandapurāṇa
Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
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 1035 (UP 2394).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2394

Contains:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa
Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa
Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa
Puranas. Brahmavaivartapurāṇa
Amapurāṇa.
Sauparṇapurāṇa.

OCLC:

773936652