Details

Subjects:

Caṇḍi (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma), presented as a discourse of the Hindu deity Śiva, outlining the procedures for performing rites and ceremonies for, and the associated spiritual benefits of, honoring and worshiping the goddess Caṇḍī.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
29 leaves foliated 1-29, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ // oṃ namaścaṃḍikāyai // atha caṃḍīpāṭaprayogāḥ likhyaṃte // śiva uvāca // (f. 1v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions 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 3124 (UP 1410).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1410.

OCLC:

910640096