Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Vratas.
Hindu mantras.
Puja (Hinduism).
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Dialogues.
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Elephant-headed Hindu deity Gaṇeśa gives instructions on how to perform this vow dedicated to honoring him. Text presented as a discourse between Gaṇeśa and his mother, the goddess Pārvatī. The performance is to begin on the 4th day in the dark half of the month of Śravaṇa (July-August) and includes fasting, mantras for performing the 16 rites of homage, among other rites. Identifies itself as a part of the Smṛtikaustubha section of the Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti brahmāṃḍapurāṇe smṛtikaustubhe saṃkaṣṭacaturthīvratakathāsamāptā // (f. 9r).
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 1212 (UP 1587).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1587

OCLC:

786343052