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Pauṣākṛṣṇasaphalaikādaśīmahātmya, circa 1700-1850.
पौषाकृष्णसफलैकादशीमहात्म्य
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2405
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Krishna (Hindu deity).
- Krishna.
- Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).
- Hindu mythology.
- Vratas.
- Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Fasting.
- Hindu astrology.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Ancestor worship--Hinduism.
- Ancestor worship.
- Moon--Religious aspects.
- Moon.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2405
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Text praising the night of the full moon in the night of Pauṣa (December-January) along with the positive results derived from the rites and ceremonies (vrata) performed during that period, especially fasting. Presented as a conversation between the legendary king Yudhiṣṭhira and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa who instructs the former on how to perform certain observances, such as the veneration of ancestors.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe pauṣākṛṣṇasaphalaikādaśīmahātm[ya]ṃ / saṃpurṇaṃ // svārthaṃ parārthi // kāśīnāthacāde kara[ṇa]likhitaṃ pauṣakṛṣṇa ekādaśīsaṃpūrṇaṃ // svārthāṃṣarārkṣāṃ // (f. 4v).
- 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 black line.
- Scribe is Kāśīnātha (f. 4v), same scribe as Item 2406.
- 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 1101 (UP 2405).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2405
- OCLC:
- 794179976
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