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Ṛṣipañcamīvratakathā, circa 1700-1850.
ऋषिपञ्चमीव्रतकथा
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. Ṛṣipañcamīvratakathā.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Rishis.
- Krishna (Hindu deity).
- Krishna.
- Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Dharma.
- Genre:
- drawings (visual works)
- prayers (compositions)
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (14 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 20 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 360
- Other Title:
- Ṛṣipañcamīkathā.
- Ṛṣipañcamīpūjā.
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Rite and observance (vrata) of ablution and prayer for removing sins (pāpa) for both men and women; dedicated to the praise and worship (pūjā) of a group of primordial sages (ṛṣi) as well as to dharma. Performed on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Bhādrapada (August-September). Presented as a dialogue between the legendary king Yudhiṣṭhira and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 13v-14r); alternate title Ṛṣipañcamīkathā from title page (f. 1r); second alternate title Ṛṣipañcamīpūjā supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
- 14 leaves foliated 1-14, lower left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti bhaviṣyottarapurāṇe śrīkṛṣṇāyudhiṣṭhirasaṃvāde ṛṣipaṃcamīvratakathāsaṃpūrṇam astu śrī kṛṣṇārpaṇamastu // cha cha [//] ya dṛśaṃ likhitaṃ dṛṣṭātādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā yadi ṣuddhamaṣuddhaṃ vāmamadoṣanavidyate // cha cha cha cha cha (f. 13v-14r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Diagram of a Persian style carpet on the final folio (14r).
- 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 1242 (UP 360).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 360
- OCLC:
- 796041972
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