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Agastyasaṃhitā, circa 1700-1850.
अगस्त्यसंहिता
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1449
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Rāma (Hindu deity).
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hinduism--Customs and practices.
- Festivals--India.
- Festivals.
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (10 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1449
- Other Title:
- Rāmanavamīvratakathā.
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Text honoring the birth of the Hindu deity Rāma, containing rites to be recited and performed during the related Hindu festival of Rāmanavamī.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 10v); alternate title Rāmanavamīvratakathā from colophon (f. 10v).
- Written in 11 lines per leaf.
- 10 leaves foliated 1-10, lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrī agastisaṃhitāyāṃ agastisutīkṣṇasevāde śrīrāmanavamīvratakathāsaṃpūrṇā // (f. 10v).
- Mistakes covered over in black; some corrections and additions 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 1014 (UP 1449).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1449
- OCLC:
- 773307015
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