Kanyasthakṛṣṇaveṇītirthavīdhīmahatmya, circa 1700-1850.
कन्यस्थकृष्णवेणीतिर्थवीधीमहत्म्य

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Dharma.
• Hindu law.
• Rites and ceremonies--India.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• India.
• Rivers--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Genre:

• manuals (instructional materials)
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

• The partially legible signature A. Du--------- is found written in pencil on the opening folio (f. i verso) who could be a former owner of the manuscript.

Physical Description:

1 item (10 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 30 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1625

Other Title:

Kṛṣṇayātrāni

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise on Hindu laws (dharma) as well as a manual that promotes, describes, and instructs pilgrims on how to perform rites and ceremonies related to visiting the sacred river called Kṛṣṇaveṇī. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 12v); alternate title Kṛṣṇayātrāni from cover leaf (f. i recto).
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
• 10 leaves foliated [i], 1-5, 10-12, [13], upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti kanyasthakṛṣṇāveṇītirthavīdhīmahatmyasaṃpūrṇaṃm astu // (f. 12v).
• Mistakes 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 3105 (UP 1625).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1625.

OCLC:

929211836