Māghasnāna, circa 1700-1850.
माघस्नान

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Bathing customs.

Bathing customs--Religious aspects.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Puja (Hinduism).

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Vishnu.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2857

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript employed for private consultation and dedicated to the rites of bathing during the month of Māgha (January/February). May be part of a larger text called the Māghamāhātmya (Greatness of the month of Māgha). Rites and prayers are to be performed for the removal of sin and for attaining liberation, before sunrise, in a sacred river and are directed at various gods, especially Viṣṇu, such as in his demon-destroying form of Madhusūdana (f. 2v). Manuscript lacks an end.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.

Incipit: śrīgālava uvāca // yaḥ snāti mādhavaprītyai prātarmāghe bahirjalaiḥ // (f. 1v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant; vertical margins marked with double red 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 1402 (UP 2857).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2857

OCLC:

802809211