Details

Subjects:

Vratas.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Puja (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript serves as a manual for the performance of observances (vratas), especially fasting in honor of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa; includes the worship of various deities such as the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa, the recitation of mantras to various deities such as Varuṇa, and the description of maṇḍalas (cosmic diagrams). These performances serve to remove sickness and give overall well-being and personal benefits.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
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.

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 3212 (UP 115).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 115

OCLC:

813835165