Mārgaśīrṣamāhātmya, 1790.
मार्गशीर्षमाहात्म्य

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa. Mārgaśīrṣamāhātmya.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Krishna (Hindu deity).

Krishna.

Brahma (Hindu deity).

Brahma.

Bhairava (Hindu deity).

Bhairava.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Hindu astronomy.

Moon--Religious aspects.

Moon.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

prayers (compositions)

hymns

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (23 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 32 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 348

Place of Publication:

1790.

१७९०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript employed for consultation and recitation; praises the month of Mārgaśīrṣa (November-December) when the moon enters into the constellation of Mṛgaśiras. Presented as a conversation between the Hindu deities Kṛṣṇa and Brahmā. Praises the god Kālabhairava, a form of the god Śiva. Final folio is damaged and missing some text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 23r).

Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.

23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe mārgaśīrṣamāhātmye mathurāṃāhātmyaṃ nāmaṣo[?]śo[??]yāyaḥ śrīrāmāya namaḥ maṃgalaṃ pāṭakāraṇaṃ lekhakāṇāṃ ca maṃgalamaṃgalaṃ sarvalokāṇaṃ bhumibhūmatiṃ maṃgalaṃ 1 yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭvā tādṛaśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā yadi śuddham aśuddhaṃ vāmama[??]ṣonadīyate 2 (f. 23r).

Colophon (in second hand): idaṃ pustakaṃ dravyadvārālikhapitaṃ / saṃvat 1847 durmatyabde māghakṛṣṇe bhubhaṃbhavat // śrīviśveśaṃ mādhavaṃ ḍhauṃḍhiṃ daṃdapaṇiṃ ca bhairavaṃ / vaṃde kāśīṃ guhāṃ gaṃgāṃ bhavānāṃ maṇikarṇikāṃ // śrīkālabhairavāya namaḥ // śrī // (f. 23r).

Dated saṃvat 1847 (1790) (f. 23r); written in a second scribal hand.

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. Secondary colophon written by second scribal hand (f. 23r).

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 1529 (UP 348).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 348

OCLC:

802826596