Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Prabhāsakhanda. Selections.

Subjects:

Ocimum sanctum.
Medicinal plants -- India.
Medicinal plants.
India.
Plants -- Religious aspects.
Vaishnavism.
Hindu goddesses.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for private or public recitation and prayer in praise and veneration of the Tulsi plant (tulasī), especially sacred to the followers of the Hindu god Viṣṇu and known for its medicinal properties (ocimum sanctum). The Tulsi plant appears in the form of a goddess, Tulasīdevī.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
29 leaves foliated 1-28, [29], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe prabhāsakhaṃḍe sanatkumārasaṃhitāyāṃ tulasīmāhātmye paṃcadaśo 'dhyāyaḥ 15 śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // śrītulasīdevītujapratinamaskāra aso śake 1761 vikārīnāmasaṃva[ts]are māheśrāvaṇavadya 11 tad[d]ine idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptaḥ śrīrāmacaṃdraprasaṃna // (f. 29r).
Dated śaka 1761 (1839) (f. 29r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
European-made paper with watermarks of letters on the 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 1559 (UP 2362).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2362

OCLC:

809542628