Bhagavadgītāmāhātmya, circa 1700-1850.
भगवद्गीतामाहात्म्य

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Varāhapurāṇa. Bhagavadgītāmāhātmya.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Recitations.

Varāha (Hindu deity).

Pāṇḍuraṅga (Hindu deity).

Hindu goddesses.

Krishna (Hindu deity).

Krishna.

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Vishnu.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Puja (Hinduism).

Songs, Sanskrit.

Recitations--Religious aspects.

Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Genre:

poems

prayers (compositions)

dialogues

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 8 x 12 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2345

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript likely carried as a kind of pocket booklet for use in private meditation and prayer. Dedicated to praising the importance of the well-known Hindu work, the Bhagavadgītā, as a sacred work and expounding on the merits of its recitation, comparing it to visiting various sacred pilgrimage sites (tīrtha). Text opens with a praise to the god Pāṇḍuraṅga, a child form of the deity Kṛṣṇa, popular especially in Maharashtra; presented as a dialogue between the wild boar form of Viṣṇu, called Varāha, and the goddess earth, Pṛthivī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti vārāhapu[rāṇe] śrīmahāvārāhapṛthivīsaṃ[vāde] śrībhagavadgītāmāhātmyaṃ saṃ[āptaṃ] śrī (f. 3r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; border margins marked with double red line.

Threaded on left side like a booklet.

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 1437 (UP 2345).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2345

OCLC:

800400148