Details

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Vratas.
Moon -- Religious aspects.
Moon.
Mudrās (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual for performing a number of different observances (vratas), prayers, hand gestures (mudras), as well as Hindu mantras to various deities that are to be performed during the ceremonies, especially the wife of the moon, Kaumudī.

Notes:

Title from the margin abbreviations throughout.
Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.
49 leaves foliated 1-49, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti pradoṣavrataṃ // (f. 49v).
Dated around 1861, which is written as a watermark on several folios.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red or orange throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
European blue paper with watermarks and the date 1861 written on it.
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 3233 (UP 270).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 270

OCLC:

825996724