Daśaharāstotra, circa 1700-1850. = दशहरास्तोत्र, १७००-१८५०.

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. Selections.

Publication:

circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०.

Format/Description:

Manuscript
1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm.

Subjects:

Puja (Hinduism)
Rivers -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Bathing customs -- India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century.
Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Ceremony held on the tenth day of the month of Jyeṣṭha (May-June) to honor and worship (pūjā) the sacred Ganges river. Rites performed are supposed to wash away or remove (harā) ten sins (pāpa) by bathing in the Ganges river.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhaviṣyottare purāṇe daśaharāstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 6v).
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 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 1263 (UP 2220).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2220

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2220

OCLC:

798257755

Online:

Facsimile
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5783661

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