Details

Standardized Title:

Haribhaktivilāsa

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Prayers.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Dedicated to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu, the manuscript is a devotional work with ritual components, especially focused on the installation of the image in a temple. It is an incomplete copy, covering most of chapter 19 (19.84-19.1048). The incipit of the commentary cites the Devipurāṇa. Manuscript commentary runs parallel above and below the root text. (Måns Broo, Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

Notes:

Title from marginal note (f. 31r); alternate title Pratiṣṭhādhikārī from incipit.
Written in 14-23 lines per leaf.
31 leaves foliated with consonants in the Sanskrit alphabet starting with ka and ending with ṣa and coinciding with 31, which is also written on the final folio, upper right verso.
Colophon: iti navadaśa[sargaḥ] (f. 31v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant numbers and words highlighted in red throughout.

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 2128 (UP 2438).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2438.

OCLC:

927415391