Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Selections.

Subjects:

Forgiveness of sin.
Hinduism.
Gangā (Hindu deity).
Forgiveness of sin -- Hinduism.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Puja (Hinduism).
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers (documents)
Hymns (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer in praise and worship (pūjā) of the River Ganges (Gaṅgā), personified as a goddess and important pilgrimage location in Hindu tradition. Recitation of the text is intended to remove ten kinds of sin. Text from chapter 27 of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Manuscript bears burn marks and obvious traces of use in worship (pūjā).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīkāśīkhaṃḍe 27 adhyāye daśāharāgaṃgāstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
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 1564 (UP 2450).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2450

OCLC:

809612363