Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa

Subjects:

Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript to be used for private or public consultation, recitation, and prayer; likely taken from a larger compendium compiled from a purāṇic source dealing with festivals, observances (vratas), pūjās (rites of worshiping deities), and mythic origins of these rites. Dedicated to Budha (Mercury), considered the son of the Moon, describing various rites to be performed in honor of this deity (such as bathing, fasting, offerings of milk, and others).

Notes:

Title from final title page (f. 5v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhaviṣyottarapurāṇe kṛṣṇayudhiṣṭirasavāde budhāṣṭamīvratapūjākathā saṃpūrṇā (f. 5r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line; floral design a decorative border on final title page (f. 5v).

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 1269 (UP 1436).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1436.

OCLC:

910899884