Details

Standardized Title:

Vedas. R̥gveda. Pavamānasūkta

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Soma (Hindu deity).
Vedāṅgas.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Hymns (documents)
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hymns from the Ṛgveda dedicated to the deity and drug Soma and employed in an ancillary work (vedāṅga). The Pavamāna, an agent of purification, is a collection of hymns often recited on fasting days associated with the Ekādaśī (eleventh day of a fortnight).

Notes:

Title from colophon (Part 3, f. 17v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
38 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-13, (Part 2) 1-8, (Part 3) 1-17, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti pavamānatṛtīyo 'dhyāyaḥ // (Part 3, f. 17v).
Dated after 1821 based on a watermark.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; Vedic metrical accents in red throughout for recitation; vertical margins marked with double red line. Different sections may have been completed by different scribes.
Watermarks with the date of 1821, the name J. Whatman, and a partial coat of arms.
A pressed snake skin is in the manuscript (Part 2, f. 7-8), possibly as a place holder or book mark.

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 63 (UP 2053).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2053.

OCLC:

957181154