Details

Other Title:

Kṛṣṇayātrāni

Subjects:

Dharma.
Hindu law.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Rivers -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise on Hindu laws (dharma) as well as a manual that promotes, describes, and instructs pilgrims on how to perform rites and ceremonies related to visiting the sacred river called Kṛṣṇaveṇī. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 12v); alternate title Kṛṣṇayātrāni from cover leaf (f. i recto).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated [i], 1-5, 10-12, [13], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti kanyasthakṛṣṇāveṇītirthavīdhīmahatmyasaṃpūrṇaṃm astu // (f. 12v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

Penn Provenance:

The partially legible signature A. Du--------- is found written in pencil on the opening folio (f. i verso) who could be a former owner of the manuscript.

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 3105 (UP 1625).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1625.

OCLC:

929211836