Details

Subjects:

Vratas.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mythology.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu women -- Religious life.
Sun -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Sun.
Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private use during the performance of rites celebrating the dark half of the month of Vaiśākha (April/May). Performed especially by women who wish to protect themselves against becoming widows. Offerings and prayers are directed towards the sun (sāvitrī). Lacks a beginning.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 13r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 2-13, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti sāvitīvratapūjākathāsamāptam astu // śrīla[kṣmī]kāṃtāpaṃṇamastu // (f. 13r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical and horizontal margins marked with double red line. Formerly housed with Item 440.
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 1504 (UP 441).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 441

OCLC:

804810235