Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Selections.

Subjects:

Smallpox.
India.
Hindu goddesses.
Smallpox -- India.
Diseases -- Religious aspects.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Puja (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text offering eight prayers to the goddess of small pox (Śītalā) to be used in private and public rites for the purpose of curing the disease.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe kāśīkhaṃḍe śītalāṣṭakaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // cha // (f. 2v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out.
Formerly housed with Item 413, Item 414, Item 415, and Item 417.
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 1587 (UP 416).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 416

OCLC:

800392881