Details

Other Title:

Pārthivapūjā.

Subjects:

Lingas (Śaivism).
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)
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Instructions with associated rules and laws (dharma) for installing and worshiping Pārthiva (earthen) liṅgas (emblems of the Hindu deity Śiva) and finishing with a kind of poetic praise (stotra) of Śiva, containing various mantras (words and phrases of power) dedicated to the deity.

Notes:

Title from final title page (f. 4v); alternate title Pārthivapūjā from incipit (f. 1r); title of second work Śivastotra from final colophon (f. 4r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śivastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 4r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some in a second scribal hand.

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 3420 (UP 1416).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1416.

Contains:

Śivastotra.

OCLC:

910640722