Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa

Other Title:

Dāsīdānavidhi.

Subjects:

Cows -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Married women -- India.
Married women.
India.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu law.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a compendium or manual for use by Hindus wishing to give different kinds of gifts (dāna) and quotes passages from various purāṇic works, especially the Skandapurāṇa, but also selections from the Liṅgapurāṇa, Bhaviṣyapurāṇa, Matsyapurāṇa, and Kūrmapurāṇa, as well as a selection from the Mahābhārata. The manuscript gives the rules (religious law) governing such gifts as the gift of a wife, "gifts" to the recently deceased, gift of a cow, and other gifts. Text also includes a section on mantras for use in worship (pūjā).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; alternate title Dāsīdānavidhi supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti strīyadāsīdānaṃ // (f. 16v).
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 black line.
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 3122 (UP 171).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 171.

OCLC:

819546328