Kokilāvrata, circa 1700-1850.
कोकिलाव्रत

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Parvati (Hindu deity).

Sati.

Hindu mythology.

Vratas.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2779

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Rites (vrata) for gaining merit, wealth, and children, typically performed by women; venerates the Hindu goddess Satī (Pārvatī), the wife of Śiva, in the form of a cuckoo bird (Kokilā); connected to the myth cycle of the Destruction of Dakṣa's Sacrifice. Vasiṣṭha, the ancient Vedic sage, is one of the narrators of the text. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 8v).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.

Internal colophon: iti vārārupuṇe kokilābratasaṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 8v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 3208 (UP 2779).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2779.

OCLC:

974914299