Details

Subjects:

Narayana (Hindu deity).
Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Puja (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook to be employed by a priest or senior family member during rites of worship (pūjā) dedicated to the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa, a form of Viṣṇu.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 9-13 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti satyanārāyaṇapūjāvidhiḥ (f. 4v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Written by two different scribal hands.
Formerly housed with item 174 and item 175.
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 3427 (UP 173).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 173

OCLC:

819546360