Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Revākhaṇḍa. Selections

Other Title:

Satyanārāyaṇavratāṅgapūjāvidhi.

Subjects:

Narayana (Hindu deity).
Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Vratas.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript to be used in private recitation and prayer following observances (vratas) dedicated to the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa, a form of Viṣṇu. Rites help to bring worldly benefits and health to the devotee through purification.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Satyanārāyaṇavratāṅgapūjāvidhi from incipit.
Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated [1-3], 4-10, lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe revākhaṃḍe nārāyaṇaviprasaṃvāde prathamodhyāyaḥ // (f. 7r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Paper color is blue.

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 1531 (UP 2778).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2778

OCLC:

807974260