Details

Other Title:

Daśaharāstotra

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Vratas.
Dharma.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu law.
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Outline of the regulations and rites of fasting (vrata) in praise of the Gaṅgā (Ganges) River, called here the Daśaharā or the Remover of the ten, referring to ten sins. Includes mantras to be recited.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternative title Daśaharāstotra supplied by cataloger (f. 2v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 3219 (UP 2520).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2520.

OCLC:

968933776