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Bhaktāmaraprabhava, circa 1700-1850.
भक्तामरप्रभव
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 436
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Mānatuṅga.
- Standardized Title:
- Bhaktāmarastotra
- Language:
- Prakrit languages
- Subjects (All):
- Jaina hymns, Prakrit.
- Jainism--Prayers and devotions.
- Jainism.
- Tīrthaṅkaras.
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- poems
- Manuscripts, Prakrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Prayers.
- Devotional literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 436
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Prakrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer. Text gives a treatment of poetics, referencing kāvyaguṇas, while presented as a praise (stotra), possibly to a tirthaṅkara (ford-maker, a revered figure in the Jaina cosmology).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 3r); alternate title Bhaktāmarastotra from final title page (f. 3v).
- Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
- 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrībhaktāṃ maraprabhavalikhitaṃ // śrī // (f. 3r).
- Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- 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 5423 (UP 436).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 436
- OCLC:
- 842412117
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