Details

Subjects:

Fasting.
Bathing customs.
India.
Vratas.
Puja (Hinduism).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Bathing customs -- India.
Fasting -- India -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text employed in public or private recitation and prayer, presenting observances (vrata) and rites to be performed during either the bright or dark half of the month. Begins with the worship (pūjā) of the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa, and includes the veneration of Viṣṇu and other deities. Rites such as fasting, bathing, offering flowers with both hands, and others are included.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 18-19 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: idaṃ pustakaṃ māhādevabhaṭacipoṇakarenalikhitaṃ // śrī // saṃvat 1839 mitiśrāvaṇavadya 10 maṃdavāre (f. 2r).
Scribe is Māhādevabhaṭṭa Cipoṇakara (f. 2r).
Dated saṃvat 1839 mitiśrāvaṇavadya (Sunday, August 18, 1782 A.D.) (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out.
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 1488 (UP 354).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 354

Contributor:

Cipoṇakara, Māhādevabhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

800373490