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Kārtikamāhātmya, circa 1700-1850.
कार्तिकमाहात्म्य
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 320
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Kārtikamāsamāhātmya
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Krishna (Hindu deity).
- Hindu astrology.
- Hindu mythology.
- Hindu mantras.
- Vratas.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (37 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 320
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Text praising the importance of the month of Kārtika (October/November) and the various rites (vratas) and mantras that need to be performed; this month is especially auspicious for the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa and text contains mythology related to this figure.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 10-17 lines per leaf.
- 37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe kārtikamāhātmye kṛṇāsatyabhāmāsaṃvāde eko ratriṃ śodhyāyaḥ // śrīlakṣmī nṛsiṃhārpaṇamastu kṛṣṇārpaṇamastu // idaṃ pustakaṃ sapuropanāmasītārāmeṇa pūritaṃ paropakārārthaṃ // (f. 37r).
- 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 red line.
- Scribe is Sītārāma Sapura (f. 37r).
- 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 1092 (UP 320).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 320
- OCLC:
- 779937238
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