Bhaumastotra, 1856.
भौमस्तोत्र

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Diseases.

Debt.

India.

Debt--India--Religious aspects.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Diseases--India--Religious aspects.

Mars (Planet).

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

hymns

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 20 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2667

Place of Publication:

1856.

१८५६.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used in private or public recitation and ceremony in celebration and veneration of the planet Mars (Bhauma), through which the devotee receives benefits, such as the removal of disease, and the obtainment of benefits and gifts, such as the removal of debt (ṛṇa). Manuscript missing one folio (f. 3).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

3 leaves foliated 1-2, 4, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe bhaumastotraṃ saṃpūrṇam śubham astu samvat 1913 caitramāse śuklapakṣe ekādaśyāṃ bhaumavāsare likhitaṃ rāmarāma (f. 4v).

Dated saṃvat 1913 (1856) (f. 4v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out. Two folios are treated with yellow powder (f. 2 and 4).

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 1569 (UP 2667).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2667

OCLC:

809542683