Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Debt.
India.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Vratas.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Debt -- India -- Religious aspects.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private or public use, recitation, prayer, and observances (vrata) dedicated to the veneration and worship (pūjā) of Dakṣiṇāmūrti, a form of the Hindu deity Śiva. Benefits such as the removal of debt and ignorance as well as the propagation of one's family are named. Presented as a dialogue between Skanda (named Guha) and the legendary sage Nārada. Text ends after colophon with a short praise of Śiva Dakṣiṇāmūrti.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v-5r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated [1], 2-5, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃde mahāpurāṇe guhanāradasaṃvāde dakṣiṇāmūrti paṃjaraṃ aṣṭāṣītimodhyāyaḥ // (f. 4v-5r).
Mistakes crossed or blacked out; double horizontal red line through all folios.
Non-Latin script record.

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 1563 (UP 2485).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2485

OCLC:

809631676