Details

Subjects:

Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Siva (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of short texts in 30 chapters (adhyāya) drawn from various Purāṇas (nānāpurāṇa) praising the Hindu pilgrimage center of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) and especially related to the Hindu deity Śiva and his emblem the liṅga; titles included are Kūrmapurāṇa, Liṅgapurāṇa, Matsyapurāṇa, Padmapurāṇa, Agnipurāṇa, Skandapurāṇa, Śivapurāṇa, Brahmavaivarttapurāṇa, Nāradīyapurāṇa, and the Śivarahasya.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
55 leaves foliated 1-55, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti kāśīsārasaṃgrahaḥ sam̄ptaḥ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astuḥ // śrīrāmacaṃdrāya namaḥ // (f. 55).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 1038 (UP 2309).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2309

Contains:

Puranas. Kūrmapurāṇa
Puranas. Liṅgapurāṇa
Puranas. Matsyapurāṇa
Puranas. Padmapurāṇa
Puranas. Agnipurāṇa
Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Saurasaṃhitā
Puranas. Śivapurāṇa. Santkumārasaṃhitā.
Brahmavaivarttapurāṇa.
Nāradīyapurāṇa.
Śivarahasya.

OCLC:

773936771