Details

Subjects:

Death.
Idols and images.
India.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Idols and images -- India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Omens -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Puja (Hinduism).
Death -- India -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is for consultation by priest or householder performing rites of expiation and worship of various gods and their images (such as Gaṇeśa, Viṣṇu, or Śiva) to dispel inauspicious tidings, especially at death. Manuscript contains two sections on different kinds of expiation and averting calamity.

Contents:

(Part 1:) Paṅcakaśānti
(Part 2:) Tripādaśānti.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Paṅcakaśānti from internal colophon (f. 3r); second alternate title Tripādaśānti from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti tripādaśāṃti samāptaḥ // (f. 3v).
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 3253 (UP 167).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 167

OCLC:

819507094