Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism).
Diseases -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Dialogues.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small, personal manuscript, possibly to be carried on a person for private or public recitation or prayer directed at the Hindu deity Viṣṇu, in order to ward off and provide protection from disease. Presented as a discourse between the legendary sages Dālbhya and Pulastya.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 18r).
Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīviṣṇudharmottare dālbhyapulastyasaṃvāde viṣṇorapāmārjanastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu (f. 18r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 1456 (UP 2505).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2505

OCLC:

802288658