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Pīṭhorākhyavratakathā, 1801.
पीठोराख्यव्रतकथा
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1419
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Fasting.
- India.
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Hindu goddesses.
- Fasting--India.
- Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.
- Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Vratas.
- Hindu mantras.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Genre:
- treatises
- prayers (compositions)
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 15 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1419
- Other Title:
- Pīṭhorāvratapūjākathā.
- Place of Publication:
- 1801.
- १८०१.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Text on rites and ceremonies to perform, focusing on fasting vows, visiting pilgrimage sites, reciting mantras to various Hindu deities, among other rites. Performed during the fifth month of the Hindu calender Śrāvaṇa (July-August) and is especially auspicious for worshiping the deity Śiva. Presented as a discourse between the Hindu goddesses Pārvatī and Indrāṇī.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 7v); alternate title Pīṭhorāvratapūjākathā from end title page (f. 8v).
- Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
- 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrībrahmāṃdapurāṇe pārvatā iṃdrāṇīsaṃvāde pīṭhorākhyavratakathā samāptaḥ // śake 1723 duramatīnāmasaṃvatsare bhādrapadakṣukla caturthyāṃ bhṛguvāsare tadine dāḍekaropajāmakabhāskarena likhitaṃ // cha // śubhaṃbhavata // cha // (f. 7v-8r).
- Dated śaka 1723 (1801) (f. 8r).
- 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 Bhāskara Daḍekara (f. 8r), possibly related to Kṛṣṇabhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, the scribe named in Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1440.
- 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 1196 (UP 1419).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1419
- OCLC:
- 786338835
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