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). Contains 20 verses of text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5r).
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe mahādevaskaṃdasaṃvāde śrīśītalāṣṭakastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīśītalādevai namaḥ // saṃvat 1861 pausaśukla ekādaśīsomavāsare // śrīdurgādevyai namaḥ // (f. 4v-5r).
Dated saṃvat 1861 (1805) (f. 5r)
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; margins marked with vertical double red lines.
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 1589 (UP 2511).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2511

OCLC:

812169059