Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a compendium of various rites and observances (vratas) and is a manual for those performed at the beginning of each cycle (season) of four months (cāturmāsya) of the year and includes rites of fasting (vrata), bathing, and others. There is a table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript (Part 1, f. 1-3).

Contents:

Table of Contents (Part 1, f. 1-3)
Cāturmāsyavratanirṇaya (Part 2, f. 1-28).

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
31 leaves foliated 1-3, 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated śaka 1752 (1830) (f. 28v).
Mistakes blacked out; minor corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
Blue, European-made paper with the watermark Leonard M. on several folios.

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 3211 (UP 1586).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1586.

OCLC:

927414805