Details

Subjects:

Uma (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu law.
Dharma.
Vratas.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise and manual on Hindu law (dharma) on rites of fasting (vrata) in veneration and devotion of the deities Śiva (Maheśvara) and Pārvatī (Umā).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti umāmaheśvaravratodyāpataṃ // (f. 5v).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked by triple red line.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Rāmacandra Karandīkara (f. 5v).

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 3454 (UP 2801).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2801.

Contributor:

Karandīkara, Rāmacandra, former owner.

OCLC:

979991012