Details

Subjects:

Blessing and cursing.
India.
Bṛhaspati (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Blessing and cursing -- India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is to be employed as a manual governing the rules of performing rites for getting rid of the negative effects that can result when the moon is in the constellation of Bṛhaspati (Jupiter), also a Hindu deity.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1v).
Written in 14 lines per leaf.
Colophon: iti kostubhe bṛhaspatiśāṃtiḥ // (f. 1v).
Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double red 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 3255 (UP 172).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 172

OCLC:

819567198