Details

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
Bathing customs -- Religious aspects.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Puja (Hinduism).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript employed for private consultation and dedicated to the rites of bathing during the month of Māgha (January/February). May be part of a larger text called the Māghamāhātmya (Greatness of the month of Māgha). Rites and prayers are to be performed for the removal of sin and for attaining liberation, before sunrise, in a sacred river and are directed at various gods, especially Viṣṇu, such as in his demon-destroying form of Madhusūdana (f. 2v). Manuscript lacks an end.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: śrīgālava uvāca // yaḥ snāti mādhavaprītyai prātarmāghe bahirjalaiḥ // (f. 1v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant; vertical margins marked with double red line.
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 1402 (UP 2857).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2857

OCLC:

802809211