Details

Other Title:

Viṣṇupañcāyatanapūjāviddhi.

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mantras.
Chidambaram (India).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript serves as a guide for performance and recitation of a worship (pūjā) of five deities (Viṣṇu, Devi, Śiva, Gaṇeśa, and Sūrya) and focuses particularly on Viṣṇu as the central deity and Lakṣmī as the form of the goddess (devi). Text ends with a blessing to the god Cidambaram, the central deity (a form of Śiva) in a town of the same name from Tamil Nadu.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 19r); alternate title Viṣṇupañcāyatanapūjāviddhi supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
20 leaves foliated 1-19, [20], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti paṃcāyatanapūjā samāptigamat // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // śrīcidaṃbare [??]ārpaṇam astu // śrīrāmacaṃdrārpaṇam astu (f. 19r).
Dated śaka 1744 (1822) (f. 19v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

From Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu.

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 3413 (UP 113).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 113

OCLC:

813298538