Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Planets -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu astrology.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of Vedic and other mantras (words or phrases of power) employed in rites and for recitation to praise and honor the nine planets (navagraha) in the Hindu astrological system and to enlist their power to remove challenges and obstacles from life.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 2-6, even numbers only, lower right verso.
Incipit: śrīgaṇeṣāyanamaḥ // ākṛṣṇeṃnāṃgirasohiraṇyastūpasavitātriṣṭup // (f. 1r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents marked in red; double red lines across top of manuscript on verso side of each folio.

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 3175 (UP 1370).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1370.

OCLC:

909561022