Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Vratas.
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Puja (Hinduism).
Sin -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used from private or public recitation, prayer, and observance during the month of Bhādra (August/September) of rites employed to ward off problems (aduḥkha), such as evil and sin, for the coming year. It includes a section called the Pūjāvidhi, on worshiping the goddess Parvātī, as well as a section on mythology related to the observance.

Notes:

Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe vyāsaṛṣisaṃvāde aduḥkhanavamīvratakathāsamāptaḥ // cha // śubhaṃbhavatu (f. 6r).
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 1533 (UP 1427).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1427

OCLC:

804815311