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Pañcakrośīmāhātmya, circa 1700-1850.
पञ्चक्रोशीमाहात्म्य
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Brahmavaivartapurāṇa. Pañcakrośīmāhātmya.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Bathing customs.
- India.
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.
- Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Hindu mythology.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Bathing customs--India.
- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).
- Genre:
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (20 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 28 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2401
- Other Title:
- Payaḥ snānam.
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Text celebrating the greatness (māhātmya) of the city of Varāṇasī (also Kāśī) by its name of Pañcakrośī, a reference to the city's traditional size given at five krośa or approximately 10 miles, a distance and circuit of temple sites that pilgrims are thought to be able to complete in five days. Discusses the creation of the worlds and the centrality of this place to it and praises the god Śiva throughout. The discourse of the legendary sages Agasti and Jaigīṣṭa figure prominently throughout. Secondary text (Payaḥ snānam) on ritual bathing completes the manuscript (f. 19v).
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r); second tile Payaḥ snānam from incipt of that work (f. 19r).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 20 leaves foliated 1-14, 14-19, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrībrahmavaivarte tṛtīyavibhāge paṃcakrośīmāhātmye paṃcamodhyāyaḥ // 5 // paṃcakrosīmāhātmasamāptaṃ // śrīkāsīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // cha // cha // cha // cha // cha // (f. 19r).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- 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 1152 (UP 2401).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2401
- OCLC:
- 794178880
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