Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Vāmanapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Vratas.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Seasons -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual for and used for performing ceremonies related to the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year and includes rites of fasting (vrata); taken from the Vrata-khaṇḍa of the Vāmanapurāṇa.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vratakhaṃḍodāhṛttavāmanapurāṇānusārī nirāhāravratodyāpanapryogaḥ // śrīparmeśvarārpaṇam astu // (f. 22r).
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.
Watermarks that include a coat of arms and the name Gior Magnani.

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 3210 (UP 1584).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1584.

OCLC:

927414675