Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Hindu goddesses.
Smallpox -- Religious aspects.
Diseases -- Religious aspects.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer, dedicated to praising the goddess of smallpox Śītalā (the cooling one) in order to ward of disease. Contains 12 verses of text. Back of manuscript used for scribal practice, especially the akṣaras (syllables) "da" and "dha."

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1r).
Scribe is Mādhava the son of Kāṃhāṃnajīt.
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
1 leaf.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe śītalāstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // samāptam iti // saṃvat 1681 varṣe dvitīyavaitravadi 12 śanaupaṃ - kāṃhāṃnajītsutamādhavena likhi[taM] // bha - ratnaj[īt]paṭhanārtham // mādhavasya kṛṣṇe bhaktir astu // (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked or crossed out; double black vertical lines mark margins.
Non-Latin script record.
Scribe is Hānajīt Sutamādhava Śana.

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 1592 (UP 2796).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2796

Contributor:

Mādhava ( son of Kāṃhāṃnajīt), scribe.

OCLC:

812167772