Details

Standardized Title:

Vratārka. Selections

Subjects:

Prayers.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and associated rules and laws (dharma) for the performance of religious vows (vrata) and the accompanying prayers and communal worship of Hindu deities.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vratārke sāmānyapūjāvidhiḥ // (f. 4v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 3433 (UP 1406).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1406.

OCLC:

910639763