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Kāśīrahasya, circa 1700-1850.
काशीरहस्य
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 331
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Brahmavaivartta. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Yugas.
- Dharma.
- Hindu law.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).
- Genre:
- treatises
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (96 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 18 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 331
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer as well as consultation on Hindu law (Dharma) and consists of the third section of the Brahmavaivarttapurāṇa, which deals with the Hindu pilgrimage center Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) and the mythology related to it. Contains discussion of the "highest dharma" and the cosmic ages (yugas) among other topics.
- Notes:
- Title from internal colophon (f. 9r).
- Internal colophon: iti śrībrahmavavarte tṛtīyabhāge kāśīrahasye prathamodhyāyaḥ // 1 // (f. 9r)
- Written in 12-16 lines per leaf.
- 96 leaves foliated 1-96, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- 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 1149 (UP 331).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 331
- OCLC:
- 830706391
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