Details

Subjects:

Gesture.
India.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu law.
Gesture -- India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual including rules and laws for rites and ceremonies, especially the recitation of mantras, with the purpose of avoiding untimely death and other calamities that might befall someone in life. Lord Tryaṃbaka, three-eyed Śiva, is the main deity mentioned in the text. Brief text at the end of manuscript on making hand signs (mudra).

Contents:

Mṛtyuñjayavidhāna (f. 1r-15v)
Mudrālakṣaṇa (f. 15v-16r).

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 16v); title of second work Mudrālakṣaṇa from final colophon (f. 16r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti ṣaṇmudrāpradarśayet // (f. 16r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Watermarks of a coat of arms with a crown.

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 4539 and 4534 (UP 1374).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1374.

OCLC:

910182809