Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Selections.

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu goddesses.
Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
Durgā (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer containing a series of mantras in thirteen verses dedicated to a form of the Hindu goddess called Indrākṣī and associated with Dūrgā and Lākṣmī. Text is attributed to the figure Puraṃdara Ṛṣi in the incipit (f. 1r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1v).
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
1 leaf.
Colophon: iti śrī skaṃdapurāṇe kāśīkhaṃḍe iṃdrākṣīstotraṃ saṃmāptaṃ i[ṃ]draproktaṃ śrījvālāprasaṃt (f. 1v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Formerly housed with Item 406.
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 1542 (UP 3041).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 3041

OCLC:

809261518