Details

Other Title:

Pūjāvidhi.

Subjects:

Puja (Hinduism).
Narayana (Hindu deity).
Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a guide or manual outlining correct procedures for priest or Hindu householders performing rites of worship (pūjā) in honor of the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa, a form of the deity Viṣṇu.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Pūjāvidhi from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti pūjāvidhi // samāpta // (f. 2v).
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 red line.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Rāmakṛṣṇabhaṭa Karberalakara (f. 2v).

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 3426 (UP 157).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 157

Contributor:

Rāmakṛṣṇabhaṭa Karberalakara, former owner.

OCLC:

819407751