Anantapūjā, 1838.
अनन्तपूजा

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bhāskara Dāḍekara, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Puja (Hinduism).

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Vratas.

Sin--Hinduism.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

manuals (instructional materials)

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (20 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1672

Place of Publication:

1838.

१८३८.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Ritual (pūjā) performed for personal and worldly benefit; dedicated to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu in the form of Ananta; propitiates and praises other deities while helping to remove sins that have occurred as well as prescribing observances (vratas) to achieve these ends. Text attributed to the Padmapurāṇa (f. 13r).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.

20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.

Internal colophon: iti padmapurāṇoktaṃ anaṃtapūjāvidhānaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 13r).

Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 20r).

Dated śaka 1740 (1838) (f. 13r).

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.

Unidentified watermarks, possibly a coat of arms.

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 3450 (UP 1672).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1672.

OCLC:

933387326