Details

Subjects:

Planets -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual for performing rites to the nine planets.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16r).
Written in 17-21 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīgrahaṣāṃtividhisaṃpūrṇam (f. 16r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 3246 (UP 2565).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2565.

OCLC:

970693523