Details

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Mṛtyuñjaya homa.
Hindu mantras.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript contains a collection of mantras employed, especially for recitation, in rites for purifying oneself from past actions (karma) and overcoming ultimate death; especially associated with Śiva. Manuscript was originally part of a larger collection of ritual texts.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti mṛtyuṃjayajapavidhānaṃsamāptaṃ (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out; some additions and corrections in margins.

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 4537 (UP 1340).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1340.

OCLC:

908400853