Daśarathalalitāvratakathā, 1783.
दशरथललिताव्रतकथा

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Dāḍekara, Bhāskarabhaṭṭa, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhaviṣyottarapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Bathing customs.

India.

Vratas.

Hindu goddesses.

Durgā (Hindu deity).

Durgā.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Puja (Hinduism).

Bathing customs--India.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

hymns

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1442

Other Title:

Daśāṅgalalitāpūjākathā.

Place of Publication:

1783.

१७८३.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text of observances (vrata) and rites for the veneration and worship of the goddess Lalitā, a form of Dūrgā. Rites include sipping water and bathing.

Notes:

Scribe is Bhāskarabhaṭṭa Dāḍekara (f. 5r).

Title from colophon (f. 5r); alternate title Daśāṅgalalitāpūjākathā from back title page (f. 5v).

Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrībhaviṣyottarapurāṇe daśarathalalitāvratakathāsamāptaḥ // śake 1705 śobhakṛnnāmasaṃvasare aśvīnavadya ekādaśyāṃ bhomyavāsare // dāḍekaropanāmakabhāskarabhaṭṭena likhitaṃ // cha // (f. 4r).

Dated śaka 1705 (1783) (f. 5r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some significant phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.

European stock of paper featuring a water mark depicting a cowboy riding on a horse under which the letters "B" and "G" appear.

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 1261 (UP 1442).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1442

OCLC:

796287348