Details

Subjects:

Durgā (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mantras.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text used in public or private recitation and prayer, employing mantras in worship (pūjā), devoted to the Hindu goddess Lalitā, often envisioned as the consort of the deity Śiva or approached as a form of the goddess Dūrgā. Especially popular in the state of Maharashtra.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Explicit: iti visarjanaṃ // (f. 8r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 4610 (UP 1420).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1420.

OCLC:

910890766