Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
India.
Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).
Brahma (Hindu deity).
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.
Vratas.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu mantras.
Bathing customs -- India.
Sin -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript contains two texts called the Kapilāṣaṣṭhīvidhāna one, longer text is from the Skandapurāṇa and a shorter version is from the Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. The first text is presented as a dialogue between the deity Brahmā (also called Pitāmaha or Grandfather), the legendary figure Yudhiṣṭhira, and the deity Kṛṣṇa. Both texts are prescribe rites and observances (vrata) such as bathing, to be performed on the sixth day in the dark half of the month of Bhādrapada (August-September) in order to receive personal benefits such as purification and the destruction of sin (pāpa). Various offerings are also prescribed such as flowers, cow's milk, and mantras.

Contents:

(Part 1:) Kapilāṣaṣṭhīvidhāna of the Skandapurāṇa
(Part 2:) Kapilāṣaṣṭhīvidhāna of the Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 16-18 lines per leaf.
2 leaves.
Colophon (part 1): iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe dhitāmahayudhiṣṭirasaṃvāde kapilāṣaṣṭividhānaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 2v).
Colophon (part 2): iti śrībhaviṣyottarapurāṇe kapilaṣaṣṭividhānaṃ samāptaṃ // cha // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 1249 (UP 332).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 332

Contains:

Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa

OCLC:

796040289