Pavanapāvana, 1786.
पवनपावन

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Dharma.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Vedas--Recitation.

Vedas.

Hinduism--Rituals--Texts--Early works to 1800.

Hinduism.

Hinduism--Rituals.

Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800.

Hindu law--Early works to 1800.

Hindu law.

Dharma--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1312

Place of Publication:

1786.

१७८६.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Guide for a priest to perform Vedic rites associated with purification, including related mantras for recitation.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

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

Colophon: iti pavanapāvanaṃ samāptiṃ agamat // (f. 4r).

Dated śaka 1709 (1786) (f. 4r); paper and style appear to be late-19th century, despite the date.

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 red line; red accents for aid in recitation.

Partial watermarks possibly from a large crest.

Scribe is Bhāskara Bhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 4r)

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 3387 (UP 1312).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1312.

OCLC:

908148987