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Subjects:

Hindu astrology.
Hindu mythology.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Vratas.
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).
Indra (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Dialogues.
Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Sections from two Purāṇas for fasts at different times of year. The first part, said to be from the Brahmapurāṇa, is a discourse between the legendary king Yudhiṣṭhira and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa describing eleven days of fast observance for the removal of sins, etc., during the dark half of the month of Māgha (January-February). The second part, said to be from the Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa, is incomplete and contains a myth about the Vedic deity Indra who curses a gandharva (heavenly singer) into a piśāca (minor demon) who must then perform rites of expiation to remove the curse.

Notes:

Title from title incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-4, 6-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti brahama[??]purāṇe māghakṛṣṇaikādaśīṣaṭtilārkhyavratakathā samāptā // (f. 4v).
Colophon: iti bhaviṣy[o]ttarapurāṇe śuklaikādaśījayākhyāvratakathā samāptā // śrī // (f. 7v).
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 1144 and 1280 (UP 357).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 357

Contains:

Puranas. Brahmapurāṇa. Selections.
Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. Selections.

OCLC:

781860737