Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Sanatkumārsaṃhitā. Kārtikamāhātmya.

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Bathing customs -- Religious aspects.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Vratas.
Puja (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text for private consultation to be employed in rites and prayers performed during the month of Kārtika (October/November). Rites including bathing, fasting, fire, and other kinds of offerings, as well as numerous mantras that need to be performed during the month Kārtika, which is especially auspicious for the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. Manuscript contains mythology related to this figure.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 42v).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
42 leaves foliated 1-42, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīsanatkumārasaṃhitāyāṃ kārtikamāhātmye sūryāruṇasaṃvāde vratodyāpanavidhikathanaṃ nāmacaturviṃśodhyāyaḥ // śrīviśveśvarpaṇam astu // śrīrādhādāmodarārpaṇam astu // idaṃ maisūrakaropanāmakaviśvanāthaśāstriṇā likhitam asti // saṃvat 1941 pauṣavadya 2 gurau // śrīsarveṣāṃ śubhaṃ bhūyāt // (f. 42v).
Scribe is Viśvanātha Śāstri Maisūrakara (f. 42v)
Dated saṃvat 1941 (1884) (f. 42v).
Mistakes 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 1519 (UP 316).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 316

Contributor:

Maisūrakara, Viśvanātha Śāstri, scribe.

OCLC:

802809237