Details

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu mythology.
Kārttikeya (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Śaivism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Poems.
Dialogues.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, consultation and recitation and is a mytho-poetic ritual manual presenting instruction for ritually putting ash on the body; presented in the form of a dialogue between the son of the Hindu deity Śiva, Sanatkumāra (known also as Skanda or Kārttikeya), and Kālāgnirudra, a form of Śiva.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and metrical accents highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
Machine made paper with a watermark bearing some kind of crest (f. 3).

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 512 (UP 1109).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1109

OCLC:

898494246