Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.

Other Title:

Trayastriṃśatsūtrabhāṣya.

Subjects:

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Jewelry -- India.
Jewelry.
Gems -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).
Hindu cosmology.
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism).
Sun -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Sun.
Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Poems.
Prayers.
Dialogues.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for private or public use in prayer, recitation, reflection, and practice of rites. The first part (f. 1) is a short commentary (bhāṣya) on the Tryastriṃśatsūtra, a text dealing with Hindu cosmology. The second part of the manuscript opens with a description of the veneration and worship of different forms of the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa. The text then gives a mythic account of the sun's gift of the gold-producing Syamantaka jewel to the legendary figure Satrājita and the subsequent adventures involving the legendary king Kṛṣṇa and the king of bears, Jāmbavāna. Presented as a discourse between kings Yudhiṣṭhira and Kṛṣṇa.

Contents:

(Part One:) Trayastriṃśatsūtrabhāṣya
(Part Two:) Syamantakopākhyāna.

Notes:

Title from colophon of part two (f. 6r); title of part one Trayastriṃśatsūtrabhāṣya from internal colophon (f. 1v).
Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1, 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe syamaṃtakopākhyānaṃ samāptam // saṃvat 1941 // (f. 6r).
Dated saṃvat 1941 (1883) (f. 6r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in 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 1602 (UP 322).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 322

OCLC:

810269152