Details

Subjects:

Hindu law.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Atonement (Prayer) -- Hinduism.
Atonement (Prayer).
Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook for use by a priest or senior family member and outlines the rules and rites for dispelling or getting rid of various obstacles that impede one's spiritual and worldly development. Dedicated to the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa (called Vināyaka).

Notes:

Title from back title page (f. 3v).
Written in 14-15 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso and recto.
Colophon: iti vaināyakīśāntiḥ // śaṃ[vat] 1839 śrāvaṇaśuddha 8 bhṛguvāre tad dine mahādevabhaṭacipoṇkarena likhitaṃ / viśveśvarārpaṇam astu // (f. 3r).
Dated saṃvat 1839 (1782) (f. 3r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.
Scirbe is Mahādevabhaṭa Cipoṇkara (f. 3r) and is the same scribe as item 179, written in the same year.

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 3258 (UP 178).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 178

Contributor:

Cipoṇkara, Mahādevabhaṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

820005245