Details

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Lingas (Śaivism).
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:

Manual with associated rules and laws (dharma) for performing ceremonies associated with a the worship of stationary Śaiva liṅgas, typically those installed in temples dedicated to the Hindu deity Śiva.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 14-15 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti sthāvaraliṃgapūjāvidhiḥ // (f. 3v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out.

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 4660 (UP 1468).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1468.

OCLC:

910915034