Vāmanapurāṇa, 1757.
वामनपुराण

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Jaṃtalīrāma Bhaṭṭa, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Vāmanapurāṇa

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vāmana (Hindu deity).

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Hindu mythology.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (133 leaves) : paper ; 19 x 47 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2172

Place of Publication:

1757.

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Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Contains stories and myths about the Hindu deity Vāmana, the dwarf avatāra of Viṣṇu; also contains stories and myths about the Hindu deity Śiva as the result of additions made by the Pāśupata sect of Śaivism.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.

133 leaves foliated 1-133, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīvāmanapurāṇe pulassanārada saṃvādevāmanapurāṇaṃ samāptaṃ // jaṃtalīrāmabhaṭṭena likhitaṃ // // śake 1679 neyā pravarttamāne īśvaranāmasaṃvatsare dakṣiṇāyane śaradṛtau kārttākeyāsikṛṣṇapakṣe 5 vudhavāre puṣyanakṣatre brahmanāmayoge tad dine samāptaḥ // graṃthasaṃkhyā 600600 // (f. 132v-133r).

Dated śaka 1679 (1757) (f. 133r).

Scribe is Jaṃtalīrāma Bhaṭṭa, likely from the village Jaṃtalī in Uttara Pradeśa.

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins; verse markers in red; vertical margins marked with double red line; decorative floral borders on front and back folios (f. 1r, 133v).

Original orange canvas wrapping and cord accompanies manuscript.

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 1447 (UP 2172).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2172

OCLC:

760218687