Details

Subjects:

Water.
India.
Gods, Vedic.
Water -- India -- Religious aspects.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.
Sūrya (Hindu deity).
Agni (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for private ceremonial use, a kind of pocket manual, outlining acts of observance and prayer at three daily junctures (saṃdhya): morning, noon, evening; it includes sipping water, reciting mantras, as well as the Gāyatrī mantra. Mantras are offered in prayers to various Vedic deities including Sūrya, Agni, Prajāpati, Nārāyaṇa, among others.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti trikālasaṃdhyāvidhiḥ samāptam sampūrṇam // ubham // śrīsamvat 1807 sālamiti vaiśākha adi 7 roja 7 likhitaṃ viṣṇudattalohanīdvijena svārthaṃ parārthaṃ vā // (f. 6r).
Scribe is Viṣṇudatta Lohanīdvija (f. 6r).
Dated saṃvat 1807 (1750) (f. 6r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
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 3053 (UP 129).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 129

Contributor:

Lohanīdvija, Viṣṇudatta, scribe.

OCLC:

816116922