Details

Other Title:

Pārthivaliṅgapūjā

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Lingas (Śaivism).
Puja (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and collection of mantras to be used during the worship (pūjā) of an earthen (pārthiva) liṅga, a special emblem of the Hindu deity Śiva. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; alternate title Pārthivaliṅgapūjā from text (f. 1r, line 12).
Written in 21-23 lines per leaf.
2 leaves.
Dated after 1876 based on watermark.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Manuscript and text are oriented in a portrait rather than landscape format, with text parallel to the narrow edge of the leaf.

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 3391 (UP 1984).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1984.

OCLC:

952122749