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Māghakṛṣṇāṣaṭtilāmāhātma, circa 1700-1850.
माघकृष्णाषट्तिलामाहात्म
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2407
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Recitations.
- Forgiveness of sin.
- Hinduism.
- Vratas.
- Seeds--Religious aspects.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Vishnu (Hindu deity).
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Forgiveness of sin--Hinduism.
- Recitations--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2407
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for private or public recitation, prayer, and worship during the Ekadaśī celebrations of the month of Māgha (January-February). Offerings of sesame seeds (tila) are made to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu, who is honored during the rites. Performed in order to help the poor and increase especially grain and rid oneself of sin.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 10 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīdvādaśīkalpe māghakṛṣṇāṣaṭtilāmāhātmaṃ // sa[ṃ]pū[r]ṇaṃ // śubham astu // rāma / rāma / kāśīnāthadekarasvārthaparārthaca / likhitaṃ ekādaśīmāghakṛṣṇasaṃpūrṇaṃ // rāma // (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.
- 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 3380 (UP 2407).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2407
- OCLC:
- 801653363
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