Daśaharāstotra, circa 1700-1850.
दशहरास्तोत्र

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Bathing customs.

India.

Puja (Hinduism).

Rivers--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Rivers.

Bathing customs--India.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2220

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Ceremony held on the tenth day of the month of Jyeṣṭha (May-June) to honor and worship (pūjā) the sacred Ganges river. Rites performed are supposed to wash away or remove (harā) ten sins (pāpa) by bathing in the Ganges river.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6v).

Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.

6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left verso.

Colophon: iti śrībhaviṣyottare purāṇe daśaharāstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 6v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 1263 (UP 2220).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2220

OCLC:

798257755