Details

Subjects:

Omens.
India.
Omens -- India.
Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript outlines rites and ceremonies dedicated to averting bad omens. It refers to mantras such as a mantra dedicated to Tryaṃbaka (the Three-eyed One), a form of the Hindu deity Śiva.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1r).
Written in 14 lines per leaf.
Scribe is Jekyā Cipolākara (f. 1r).
Colophon: iti adhomukhajananaśāṃtiḥ saṃ[vat] 1935 śa[ke] 1799 cai[tra] va - 3 gurau jekyācipo[lā]kareṇa likhitaṃ śubhaṃ bhavat (f. 1r).
Dated saṃvat 1935 śaka 1799 (1878 A.D.) (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out.
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 3165 (UP 130).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 130

Contributor:

Cipolākara, Jekyā, scribe.

OCLC:

816079908