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Gaṇapatipratiṣṭhāpanapaddhati, 1782.
गणपतिप्रतिष्ठापनपद्धति
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 179
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Baudhāyana, attributed name.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Idols and images--Hinduism--India.
- Idols and images.
- Hinduism.
- India.
- Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
- Gaṇeśa.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 179
- Other Title:
- Gaṇapatipratiṣṭhā.
- Place of Publication:
- 1782.
- १७८२.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Text is attributed to a traditional author dated to about the 6th century B.C. with ties to the transmission of the Yajurveda school, though likely a much later, even medieval text, aligning itself with that lineage/school.
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook for use by a priest, outlining the rules and laws governing the installation of religious images, inviting the deity (the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa) to reside therein, bathing the image, and other rites; the image to be subsequently worshiped by Hindu adherents.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Gaṇapatipratiṣṭhā from incipit.
- Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti baudhāyanoktagaṇapatipratiṣṭhāpanapaddhatiḥ // saṃvat 1839 bhādrapadavadya 8 bhṛgunāre mahādevabhatacipoṇkarena likhitaṃ // śrīkālabhairavāya namaḥ // (f. 2v).
- Dated saṃvat 1839 (1782) (f. 2v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- Scribe is Mahādevabhaṭa Cipoṇkara (f. 2v), also named in item 178, which was written in the same year.
- 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 3366 (UP 179).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 179
- OCLC:
- 820003636
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