Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. Selections.

Other Title:

Daśāṅgalalitāpūjākathā.

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
India.
Vratas.
Hindu goddesses.
Durgā (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Puja (Hinduism).
Bathing customs -- India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text of observances (vrata) and rites for the veneration and worship of the goddess Lalitā, a form of Dūrgā. Rites include sipping water and bathing.

Notes:

Scribe is Bhāskarabhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 5r).
Title from colophon (f. 5r); alternate title Daśāṅgalalitāpūjākathā from back title page (f. 5v).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaviṣyottarapurāṇe daśarathalalitāvratakathāsamāptaḥ // śake 1705 śobhakṛnnāmasaṃvasare aśvīnavadya ekādaśyāṃ bhomyavāsare // dāḍekaropanāmakabhāskarabhaṭṭena likhitaṃ // cha // (f. 4r).
Dated śaka 1705 (1783) (f. 5r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some significant phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
European stock of paper featuring a water mark depicting a cowboy riding on a horse under which the letters "B" and "G" appear.
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 1261 (UP 1442).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1442

Contributor:

Dāḍekara, Bhāskarabhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

796287348