Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. Ṛṣipañcamīvratakathā.

Other Title:

Ṛṣipañcamīkathā.
Ṛṣipañcamīpūjā.

Subjects:

Rishis.
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

Drawings (visual works)
Prayers.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Rite and observance (vrata) of ablution and prayer for removing sins (pāpa) for both men and women; dedicated to the praise and worship (pūjā) of a group of primordial sages (ṛṣi) as well as to dharma. Performed on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Bhādrapada (August-September). Presented as a dialogue between the legendary king Yudhiṣṭhira and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 13v-14r); alternate title Ṛṣipañcamīkathā from title page (f. 1r); second alternate title Ṛṣipañcamīpūjā supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-14, lower left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhaviṣyottarapurāṇe śrīkṛṣṇāyudhiṣṭhirasaṃvāde ṛṣipaṃcamīvratakathāsaṃpūrṇam astu śrī kṛṣṇārpaṇamastu // cha cha [//] ya dṛśaṃ likhitaṃ dṛṣṭātādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā yadi ṣuddhamaṣuddhaṃ vāmamadoṣanavidyate // cha cha cha cha cha (f. 13v-14r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Diagram of a Persian style carpet on the final folio (14r).
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 1242 (UP 360).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 360

OCLC:

796041972