Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Kārtikamāsamāhātmya

Subjects:

Krishna (Hindu deity).
Hindu astrology.
Hindu mythology.
Hindu mantras.
Vratas.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text praising the importance of the month of Kārtika (October/November) and the various rites (vratas) and mantras that need to be performed; this month is especially auspicious for the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa and text contains mythology related to this figure.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 10-17 lines per leaf.
37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe kārtikamāhātmye kṛṇāsatyabhāmāsaṃvāde eko ratriṃ śodhyāyaḥ // śrīlakṣmī nṛsiṃhārpaṇamastu kṛṣṇārpaṇamastu // idaṃ pustakaṃ sapuropanāmasītārāmeṇa pūritaṃ paropakārārthaṃ // (f. 37r).
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 Sītārāma Sapura (f. 37r).
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 1092 (UP 320).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 320

Contributor:

Sītārāma Sapura, scribe.

OCLC:

779937238