Details

Other Title:

Kārttikasnānamantra.

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
India.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.
Puja (Hinduism).
Bathing customs -- India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript comprises two parts. The first part is for private or public recitation and rites of purification meant to absolve a devote Hindu of 32 offenses that they may have committed. The second part of the manuscript is a set of mantras to be performed during the special bathing rites observed in the month of Kārtika (October/November).

Contents:

(Part 1:) Dvātriṃśadamarādhaślokāḥ
(Part 2:) Kārttikasnānamantra.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 1v); alternate title from colophon (f. 2r).
Written in 12-14 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti dvātriṃśadamarādhaślokāḥ samāptāḥ saṃpū[r]ṇam // cha // śrī // (f. 1v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in red ink.
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 1853 and 3171 (UP 165).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 165

OCLC:

819531134