Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.

Other Title:

Gurupaddhati namaskāra.

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Guru worship (Rite).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Poems.
Hymns.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

First part is a short treatise on the performance of obeisances to and veneration of one's teacher (guru) and, using mantras, praising the names of legendary and historical teachers. Presented as a conversation between the Hindu deities Śiva and Pārvatī. Second part, the Mānasikasnānavidhi, is from the Vāmanapurāṇa and deals with methods of mental bathing performed as a meditation.

Contents:

Gurupaddhati natividhāna
Mānasikasnānavidhi.

Notes:

Title for manuscript from colophon of first part (f. 1v); alternate title Gurupaddhati namaskāra from second line of text (f. 1r); section title Mānasikasnānavidhi from colophon for second part (f. 2r).
Written in 15-16 lines per leaf.
2 leaves.
Colophon (Part 1): iti padmapurāṇe IśvarapārvatIsaṃvāde gurupaddhatinatividhānaṃ sa[māptaṃ] (f. 1v).
Colophon (Part 2): iti śrīvāmanapurāṇoktamānasikasnānavidhiḥ saṃpūrṇam abhavat // cha // śraddhānīramanaḥ puṣpaṃ dhīdhūpaṃ jñānadīpakam // viṣayat yogan[ai]vedyaṃ sābhaktiḥ parameśvare // 1 // aham kārodhiyaṃ brute māsuptaprativodhaya // u[???]te ca parānaṃdenatanāhaṃ navaijagat // 2 // hakāraśivarūpeṇa sakāraḥ śaktirupyate // sohaṃ soṣṭadhāmūrtiṃ jīvojapati sarvadā // cha // cha // (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line. Text written on European paper with a watermark of a crown over a fleur-de-lis.
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 1097 (UP 2313).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2313

Contains:

Puranas. Vāmanapurāṇa
Mānasikasnānavidhi.

OCLC:

793105061