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Śukrāstapūjāvidhi, circa 1700-1850.
शुक्रास्तपूजाविधि
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Atonement.
- Food.
- Idols and images.
- India.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Idols and images--India--Religious aspects.
- Food--India--Religious aspects.
- Atonement--Religious aspects.
- Hindu astronomy.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 26 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 127
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript employed as an instruction manual for performing Hindu rites of pūjā (worship) with food offerings and setting up images during the end of the month of Śukra (May/June), when the planet Venus is in transition, in order to alleviate or atone (prāyaścitta) the inauspicious and negative qualities associated with this period.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 2v).
- Written in 14-16 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left verso.
- Colophon: iti śukrāstapūjāvidhiḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 2v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 3423 (UP 127).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 127
- OCLC:
- 816116903
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