Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Liṅgapurāṇa. Selections.

Other Title:

Pārthivaliṅgavidhi.

Subjects:

Lingas (Śaivism).
Śaivism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript to be used in private or public performance of rites, recitations, and ceremonies, directed towards the liṅga (mark or sign), an emblem of the Hindu deity Śiva. Especially concerned with the precepts and rules surrounding the pārthiva or earthen liṅga renowned as the most auspicious. Text also contains a series of mantras dedicated to Śiva as well a mention of the importance of visiting pilgrimage sites. Text may be a collection of rules and regulations about liṅga worship from a number of different sources, especially the Liṅgapurāṇa, although printed editions of the text do not correlate with the manuscript. Skandapurāṇa and some unknown Tantric texts may also be a source for some passages.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 13v); alternate title Pārthivaliṅgavidhi from the incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-13, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti pārthi[va]sāre kāmyavidhānaṃ (f. 13v).
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 1424 (UP 2257).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2257

Contains:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa

OCLC:

801673691