Details

Subjects:

Atonement.
Food.
Idols and images.
India.
Puja (Hinduism).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Idols and images -- India -- Religious aspects.
Food -- India -- Religious aspects.
Atonement -- Religious aspects.
Hindu astronomy.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript employed as an instruction manual for performing Hindu rites of pūjā (worship) with food offerings and setting up images during the end of the month of Śukra (May/June), when the planet Venus is in transition, in order to alleviate or atone (prāyaścitta) the inauspicious and negative qualities associated with this period.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 14-16 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left verso.
Colophon: iti śukrāstapūjāvidhiḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 3423 (UP 127).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 127

OCLC:

816116903