Details

Other Title:

Anantapūjāvidhi.

Subjects:

Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual for consultation, outlining the rules and procedures (Hindu legal material) by priests or householders performing rites of worship to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu in the form of Ananta, the Eternal One.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r); alternate title Anantapūjāvidhi supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti anaṃtapūjāsamāptā // (f. 11r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
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 3344 (UP 158).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 158

OCLC:

819409869