Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies.
Bathing customs.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Bathing customs -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Allahabad (India) -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of instructional manual for priests performing bathing rites and prayers in the sacred Hindu pilgrimage center of Prayāga (modern-day Allahabad).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10v).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti prayāgasmānavidhiḥ // saṃvat 1752 māghaśuddhanavamyāṃ śanau agastīśvarathabrahmeśvarasannidhau ubhayor madhyenistale ity upanāmakaviśvanāthabhaṭṭātmajasarvottamena likhitaṃ // śrīrastu // sarvajagataḥ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇām astu // (f. 10v).
Dated saṃvat 1752 (1695) (f. 10v).
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 3324 (UP 140).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 140

Contributor:

Madhyenistale, Sarvottama (Son of Viśvanāthabhaṭṭa), scribe.

OCLC:

816117118