Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Selections.

Subjects:

Sacred space.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
India.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Sacred space -- India.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

The small single-folio manuscript had been folded into a pocket-sized text, which could be easily transported on one's person. Manuscript describes funeral rites to be performed in the city of Vārāṇasī at the Kapiladhārā pilgrimage site (tīrtha) sacred to the Hindu deity Śiva, one of the cities oldest sacred spots, mentioned as early as the Mahābhārata.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1v).
Written in 22 lines per leaf.
1 leaf.
Colophon: iti śrīkāśīkhaṃḍe prasiddhasamāptaḥ // śrīśaṃkarārpaṇamastu // (f. 1v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
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 1526 (UP 2776).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2776

OCLC:

807974775