Details

Other Title:

Vāstupūjā.

Subjects:

Idols and images.
Housing.
India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Housing -- India -- Religious aspects.
Puja (Hinduism).
Idols and images -- India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a short manual outlining ceremonies for digging ground for a new house, prescribing the setting up and worship of various images of gods, and especially for appeasing (śanti) evils and calamities that might befall the occupants of the house. Manuscript lacks beginning.

Notes:

Title manuscript wrapping; alternate title Vāstupūjā from colophon (f. 8v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 2-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vāstupūjāsamāptā // śrīvyaṃkaṭeśārpaṇam astu // (f. 8v).
Mistakes 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 3139 (UP 126).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 126

OCLC:

816093836