Gaṇapatyatharvaśīrṣa, circa 1700-1850.
गणपत्यथर्वशीर्ष

Format:

• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Maktuṇa, Cintāmaṇa, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
• Hindu mantras.

Genre:

• prayers (compositions)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 16 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 100

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of protective rites, mantras, and praises associated with the name Gaṇapati; purported to be from the Atharvaveda (f. 2r) though likely written in the late medieval period; dedicated to the deity Gaṇeśa, though manuscript identifies itself as an Upaniṣad (f. 2r).

Notes:

• Title from rubric (f. 1r) and colophon (f. 2r), written without sandhi in both cases (gaṇapati atharvaśīraṣaṃ), and corrected by cataloger.
• Written in 15 lines per leaf.
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: ity upaniṣat // ity atharvaṇavede gaṇapat[ya]tharvaśīraṣaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīgajānanārpaṇamastu // oṃ maktuṇopanāmakaciṃtāmaṇena likhitaṃ // svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca // (f. 2r).
• Scribe is Cintāmaṇa with the family name (upanāma) of Maktuṇa (f. 2r).
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins.
• 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 549 (UP 100).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 100

OCLC:

760105362