Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Viṣṇupurāṇa. Ṣaṣṭhāṃśa. Selections.

Subjects:

Cosmochronology.
Hindu cosmology.
Cosmochronology -- Religious aspects.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript used for private reflection taken from the sixth book of the Viṣṇupurāṇa, first chapter. Text explores the topic of the dissolution and end of the four cosmic cycles or ages, specifically the Kali age, considered the most degenerate and final of the four. Presented as a discourse between the legendary figures Maitreya and Parāśara. Manuscript also contains a running commentary situated horizontally above and below the main text of the Viṣṇupurāṇa

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v); title of commentary Kaleriti, from incipit of commentary (f. 1v).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti viṣṇupurāṇe ṣaṣṭā[ṃ]śe prathamodhyāyaḥ // (f. 6r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
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 1473 (UP 2280).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2280

Contains:

Kaleriti.

OCLC:

800667814