Details

Standardized Title:

Vedas. R̥gveda. Pavamānasūkta

Other Title:

Pavamānapañcasūktasahita

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)
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 title abbreviations in margins; alternate title Pavamānapañcasūktasahita from end title page (f. 30v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti pavamānaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 30r).
Dated śaka 1766 (1844).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; Vedic metrical accents in red throughout for recitation.

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 65 (UP 2056).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2056.

OCLC:

957181337