Details

Subjects:

Idols and images.
India.
Puja (Hinduism).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu goddesses.
Idols and images -- India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual on worship (pūjā) of various deities, especially goddesses, and giving instructions on the installation of sacred images and how to infuse them with divine life force such as prāṇapratiṣṭhā.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 30v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti paradevatānityapūjāvidhiḥ samāptaṃ // śrubham astu // (f. 30v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 3385 (UP 2002).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2002.

OCLC:

953736670