Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Krishna (Hindu deity).
Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).
Hindu mythology.
Vratas.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu astrology.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Moon -- Religious aspects.
Moon.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text praising the night of the full moon in the night of Pauṣa (December-January) along with the positive results derived from the rites and ceremonies (vrata) performed during that period, especially fasting. Presented as a conversation between the legendary king Yudhiṣṭhira and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa who instructs the former on how to perform certain observances, such as the veneration of ancestors.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe pauṣākṛṣṇasaphalaikādaśīmahātm[ya]ṃ / saṃpurṇaṃ // svārthaṃ parārthi // kāśīnāthacāde kara[ṇa]likhitaṃ pauṣakṛṣṇa ekādaśīsaṃpūrṇaṃ // svārthāṃṣarārkṣāṃ // (f. 4v).
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 black line.
Scribe is Kāśīnātha (f. 4v), same scribe as Item 2406.
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 1101 (UP 2405).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2405

Contributor:

Kāśīnātha, scribe.

OCLC:

794179976