Details

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Gāyatrī (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise and manual on morning rites and ceremonies, especially the recitation of prayers to the Vedic goddess Gāyatrī and her associated mantras.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 19 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti prātaḥsaṃdhyāprayogaḥ samāptaḥ // śrīmahākālimahālakṣmīmahāsarasvatyai arpaṇam astu // śrīsāṃvasadāśivārpaṇam astu śrīrastuḥ // śrīrāmacaṃ[draḥ] (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Partial, indistinguishable watermark.

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 3056 (UP 2018).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2018.

OCLC:

954004085