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Aduḥkhanavamīkathā, 1801.
अदुःखनवमीकथा
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1439
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vratas.
- Parvati (Hindu deity).
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Sin--Hinduism.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1439
- Other Title:
- Aduḥkhanavamīvrata.
- Aduḥkhanavamīvratakathā.
- Place of Publication:
- 1801.
- १८०१.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used from private or public recitation, prayer, and observance during the month of Bhādra (August/September) of rites employed to ward off problems (aduḥkha), such as evil and sin, for the coming year. It includes a section called the Pūjāvidhi, on worshiping the goddess Parvātī, as well as a section on mythology related to the observance.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 7v); alternate title Aduḥkhanavamīvrata from incipit; second alternate title Aduḥkhanavamīvratakathā supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
- 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe aduḥkhanavamīkathāsamāptaḥ // cha // śake 1723 durmamati saṃvatsare nabhaśukl[e] tad dine daśamīgurūvārarāmacaṃdrasya sununā viśvanāthaparāḍakareṇa svārthaparopakarārthalikhyate // cha // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 7v).
- Dated śaka 1723 (1801) (f. 7v).
- Scribe is Viśvanātha Parāḍakara, son of Rāmacandra (f. 7v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Significant symbols, words, and phrases highlighted in red throughout. Double vertical lines in red mark margins on some folios (f. 1-3).
- 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 1534 (UP 1439).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1439
- OCLC:
- 804683244
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