Details

Subjects:

Tree worship.
India.
Sāvitrī (Hindu deity).
Vratas.
Hindu women.
Banyan tree -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Tree worship -- India.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) for women to honor their husbands by performing rites and observances (vrata) that involve the wrapping of a banyan or vaṭa tree (Ficus benghalensis) at the end of a larger observance and fast and by honoring the Vedic deity Sāvitrī as a form of the Great Goddess (Devi).

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
3 segments foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso; manuscript is one leaf folded into three segments with the text running sequentially throughout the recto and then sequentially on the verso.
Colophon: iti sāvitrīvratodyāpanasamāptaḥ (f. 3v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Watermark with the initials E M A in a V shape.

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 3230 (UP 1403).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1403.

OCLC:

910897661