Yamunāmāhātmya, circa 1700-1850.
यमुनामाहात्म्य

Format:

• Manuscript

Standardized Title:

• Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.
• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
• India.
• Vishnu (Hindu deity).
• Śakti (Hindu deity).
• Yamuna River (India).

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (12 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 319

Other Title:

Marīcisarga.

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Praise (māhātmya) of the Yamunā River in North India, promoting pilgrimage there; praise of Hindu deities, especially Viṣṇu; considered a section of the larger Marīcisarga a section of the Padmapurāṇa; presented from the perspective of the goddess Śakti.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 12r), alternate title Marīcisarga from colophon (f. 12r).
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
• 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe marīcisarge śrīyamunāmāhātmyaṃ samāptaṃ (f. 12r).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins with different ink, by a different hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red 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 1109 (UP 319).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 319

OCLC:

779937734