Details

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Mṛtyuñjaya homa.
Hindu mantras.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of mantras employed, especially for recitation, in rites for purifying oneself from past actions (karma) and overcoming ultimate death; especially associated with Śiva. Some of the text seems to be written in a second scribal hand.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes 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 4536 (UP 1418).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1418.

OCLC:

910640930