Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
India.
Hindu goddesses.
Durgā (Hindu deity).
Bards and bardism in literature.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Vratas.
Rishis.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Bathing customs -- India.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

First part of the manuscript is a short text related to the worship of Lilitā an abbreviated form of the name Upāṅgalalitā, a Hindu goddess popular especially in Maharashtra and considered a form of the goddess Durgā. Second and main part of the manuscript is dedicated to the performance of observances and rites (vrata) such as bathing or sipping water, related to the worship (pūjā) of Upāṅgalalitā, worshiped on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Aśvayuja (September-October). Presented as a conversation between the legendary bard or sūta and the primordial sages (ṛṣis).

Contents:

(Part 1:) Lilitāpūjanavidhi
(Part 2:) Upāṅgalalitāvrata.

Notes:

Title of main work from second colophon (f. 11v); title of short first work Lilitāpūjanavidhi from colophon (f. 4r).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: itī śrībhaviṣyottarapurāṇe upāṃgalalitāvratasa[ṃ]pūrṇa[ṃ] // cha // // idaṃ pustakaṃ mathurānāthadevena likhitaṃ ātmapaṭhanārthaṃ paropakārārthaṃ // cha (f. 11v).
Scribe is Mathurānāthadeva (f. 11v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 1240 (UP 370).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 370

Contributor:

Mathurānāthadeva, scribe.

Contains:

Lilitāpūjanavidhi.

OCLC:

796288653