Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.

Other Title:

Karkaṭīvratakathā.

Subjects:

Idols and images.
Worship.
India.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Idols and images -- India -- Worship.
Widows -- Religious aspects.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Vratas.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for public or private use for consultation, recitation, and the performance of observances (vratas) to ward off widowhood and the propitiation of the Hindu deities Śiva and Pārvatī. Outlines the installation of images and the invitation of the deities therein, their worship, and related mythology.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Karkaṭīvratakathā from colophon (f. 9v).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe sūtaṛṣisaṃvāde karkaṭīvratakathāsamāptā // (f. 9v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Written on European paper with watermarks. The same scribe and paper were also used for Item 1447, Item 1453, Item 1455, Item 1456, and Item 1459, and may have originally been from the same manuscript as one or more of these items.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Māhādevabhaṭṭa and Gaṇeśabhaṭṭa based on the colophon of related manuscript Item 1459 (f. 4); one may also have been the scribe of this manuscript.

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 1547 (UP 1454).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1454

Contributor:

Mahadevabhaṭṭa, active 18th century, former owner.
Gaṇeśabhaṭṭa, former owner.

OCLC:

812171630