Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Vratas.
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Festivals -- India.
Festivals.
India.
Fasts and feasts -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Puja (Hinduism).
Worship (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used as a kind of manual or handbook for consultation by a priest or household member (especially women) wanting to perform the rites, ceremonies, observances (vratas), and worship (pūjā) associated with the goddess Pārvatī during the festival of Maṅgalāgaurī (usually on Tuesdays) held during the month of Śrāvaṇa (July/August), especially auspicious for the god Śiva.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhaviṣyottarapurāṇe skaṃdanaṃdīśvarasaṃvāde maṃgalāgaurīvratakathā saṃpūrṇā // idaṃ pustakaṃ gaṇeśena likhitaṃ // (f. 9r).
Scribe is Gaṇeśa (f. 9r).
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 red line.
Notes on paper and bindings or wrappings.
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 1273 (UP 1407).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1407

Contributor:

Gaṇeśa Nātu, scribe.

OCLC:

820723541