Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Selections.

Subjects:

Flowers.
India.
Birds -- India.
Birds.
Flowers -- India.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Praise (stotra) and veneration text dealing with flora and fauna, especially birds and blossoms, along the banks of the Ganges River in the pilgrimage city of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīkāśīkhaṃṇḍe saṃkaṭāstotrasamāptaṃ // śubham astu // saṃvata 1882 // (f. 2r).
Dated saṃvat 1882 (1820) (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Formerly housed with Item 465, Item 466, Item 467, Item 468, and Item 470. These items likely shared a former owner.
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 1593 (UP 469).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 469

OCLC:

781297259