Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Vratas.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private use and consultation describing rites and observances (vratas) to be performed on the Moon-day (Somavāra or Monday) in honor of the Hindu deity Śiva. Contains numerous mantras to be recited in praise of Śiva.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe somavāravrataṃ saṃpūrṇa[ṃ] // śrī saṃvat 1804 śrāvaṇaśudha 5 (f. 6r).
Dated saṃvat 1804 śrāvaṇaśudha 5 (Tuesday, 30 July 1748) (f. 6r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; minor highlights in red (f. 4r); vertical margins marked with double black 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 1601 (UP 2410).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2410

OCLC:

812169041