Details

Subjects:

Water.
India.
Water -- India -- Religious aspects.
Bridges -- India -- Religious aspects.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a guide collecting together rites and prayers for consecrating tanks, wells, and bridges. Includes mention of offerings to the Hindu deity Ganeśa, the remover of obstacles and impediments, and the officiator of new beginnings.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 13 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti saṃkṣipto jalāśayotsargaprayogaḥ samāptaḥ // śrī // (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 3135 (UP 128).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 128

OCLC:

816093444