Details

Standardized Title:

Vratārka. Selections

Other Title:

Saṃkaṣṭacaturthi.

Subjects:

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Vratas.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.
Hindu astrology.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual including rules and laws (dharma) for rites and observances (vratas) in a celebration and praise of the Hindu elephant-headed deity Gaṇeśa that occurs during each lunar month to help avoid trouble and pain. The manuscript was likely part of a larger compendium of observances (vratas) called the Vratārka which itself is likely drawn from the Skandapurāṇa (f. 8v).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Saṃkaṣṭacaturthi from colophon (f. 8v); title of source text, the Skandapurāṇa, from colophon (f. 8v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃde saṃkaṣṭacaturthivrataṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīgajānanārpaṇam astu // (f. 8v).
Dated śaka 1762 (1840) (f. 8v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 3446 (UP 1429).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1429.

OCLC:

910899534