Prayāgamāhātmya, 1802.
प्रयागमाहात्म्य

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Matsyapurāṇa. Prayāgamāhātmya

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

India.

Hindu mythology.

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Allahabad (India).

Genre:

poems

prayers (compositions)

hymns

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (53 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 19 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2428

Place of Publication:

1802.

१८०२.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript employed for private or public recitation or prayer, praising the greatness of the sacred pilgrimage center of Prāyāga (modern day Allahabad) and presenting mythological accounts of its origin, and power as well as accounts of various Hindu gods, especially Viṣṇu. Contains twelve chapters in total.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 53v).

Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.

53 leaves foliated 1-53, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrī matsyapurāṇe prayāgamāhātmye dvādaśodhyāyaḥ cha 12 cha saṃ[vat] 1859 māghe māsi kṛṣṇapakṣe saptamīmaṃdavāsare prayāgamādhavakṣetre makaraṃ dolikhadvijaḥ 1 // lekhakṛpāṭhakayoḥ śubhaṃ bhūyāt śrīgurucaṇasamarthitaṃ // (f. 53v).

Dated saṃvat 1859 (1802) (f. 53v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Title on front cover (f. 1r) is written upside down.

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 1396 (UP 2428).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2428

OCLC:

802284685