Details

Subjects:

Hinduism.
Saturn (Planet).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Śaivism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Śani (Hindu deity).
Saturn (Planet) -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise and description of a rite dedicated to the god Śiva and performed during the Evening of Saturn (Sanidoṣa). Manuscript contains chapter 31 of this larger work.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśivarahasye ekādaśāṃśeśanipradoṣamahimānāma ekatriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ (f. 4v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Scribe is Sadāśiva, son of Nārāyaṇa (f. 4v).
Dated śaka 1766 (1844) (f. 4v).
Watermarks of letters, possibly T, E, and L, as well as some design of possibly a figure or architecture.

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 4624 (UP 1962).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1962.

Contributor:

Sadāśiva (Son of Nārāyaṇa), scribe.

OCLC:

951674728