Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Selections.

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu goddesses.
Gangā (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mantras.
Bathing customs -- Religious aspects.
Kārttikeya (Hindu deity).
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private or public recitation or prayer, venerating and worshiping the one thousand names of the Hindu goddess Gaṅgā, the personification of the Ganges river, considered both a heavenly and earthly body of water. Promotes the benefits of bathing in this river, which is sacred to Hindus and especially to the followers of Śiva. Presented as a dialogue between the deity Skanda and the legendary sage Agastya.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 28r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
28 leaves foliated 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe kāśīkhaṃḍe gaṃgāsahasranāmaikonatriṃśodhyāyaḥ śrīkāśīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // śake 1723 durmatīnāmasaṃvatsare madyaśuklanavamyāṃ tad dine dāḍekaropanāmakabhāskarena likhitaṃ śubhaṃbhavatu // (f. 28r).
Dated śaka 1723 (1801) (f. 28r).
Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 28r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow.
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 1549 (UP 2332).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2332

Contributor:

Dāḍekara, Bhāskara, scribe.

OCLC:

809549010