Details

Subjects:

Idols and images.
India.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Yantras.
Idols and images -- India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an instruction manual (paddhati) for use by a priest, describing the installation of religious images of various Hindu deities used in ceremonies of worship and offering, especially those related to the deity Śiva.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, 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.
Yantra (sacred diagram) of an eight-petaled lotus flower with the name of the deity Brahmā at its center on front page of manuscript: it was part of a separate manuscript and used for backing of the first folio of main manuscript. There is a diagram on the verso of the reinforcement that is covered by the main text (f. 1v).
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 3136 (UP 132).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 132

OCLC:

816101025