Aduḥkhanavamīvratakathā, 1798.
अदुःखनवमीव्रतकथा

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Vaḷe, Mādhava, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu goddesses.

Vratas.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Women--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Women.

Good and evil--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Good and evil.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

prayers (compositions)

dialogues

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1669

Place of Publication:

1798.

१७९८.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for private or public consultation and recitation during observances performed on the ninth day in the bright half of the month of Bhaudra (August/September) in honor of the Great Goddess (Mahādevī), whom women worship to avert evil in the coming year. Presented as a discourse between the legendary author Vyāsa and the sages (ṛṣis).

Notes:

Scribe is Mādhava Vaḷe (f. 3r).

Title from colophon (f. 3r).

Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.

3 leaves foliated 1-3, middle left and right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe vyāsaṛṣisaṃvāde adu[ḥ]khanavamīvratakathāsaṃpurṇaṃ // śrīlakṣmīnārasiṃhārpaṇam astu // śake 1720 kālayuktanāmasaṃvatsare [6] bhāddapadaśuklaikādaśyāṃ valeyupanāmakamādhavena likhitaṃ // cha (f. 3r).

Dated śaka 1720 bhāddapadaśukla 11 (Friday, September 21, 1798) (f. 3r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 1536 (UP 1669).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1669

OCLC:

807974407