Details

Subjects:

Children.
India.
Purity, Ritual -- Hinduism.
Children -- India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Puja (Hinduism).
Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual of rites and contains prayers for use during rites of purification, getting rid of obstacles, and similar rites, on an auspicious day (puṇyāha); it is especially used for purifying children shortly after birth.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: mitī caitraśuddha 9 bhomavāsare puṣyadivasanakṣe śake 1757 parābhavanāmasaṃvatsare pustakavāsudevātmajaparśarāmabhaṭṭabhāvyena likhitaṃ // (f. 6r).
Dated śaka 1757 caitraśuddha 9 (Tuesday, 7 April 1835) (f. 6r).
Parśarāmabhaṭṭa Bhāvya, son of Vāsudeva (f. 6r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 3393 (UP 147).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 147

Contributor:

Bhāvya, Parśarāmabhaṭṭa ( son of Vāsudeva), scribe.

OCLC:

819406067