Devīmāhātmyadīpikā circa 1750-1899.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Vādīcandra Cakravartti.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Durgā (Hindu deity).

Durgā.

Caṇḍi (Hindu deity).

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Puja (Hinduism).

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

commentaries

facsimiles (reproductions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (30 leaves) : illustrations

Contained In:

Rāmamālā Library 8131

Other Title:

Caṇḍīṭīkā.

Place of Publication:

circa 1750-1899.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Description and commentary on the story of the goddess Durgā, here identified with the regional deity Caṇḍī, in her war against the demon Mahiṣāsura as well as praising the greatness and describing worship that should be given to her.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust

Written in 5-9 lines per folio.

30 leaves foliated 1-30, middle right verso; there is one photo missing of the recto of folio 2; there are two extra photos of the front.

Title from colophon (f. 30r); alternate title Caṇḍīṭīkā from colophon (f. 30r).

Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.

Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 39 cm.

Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 661; Vi: 21.

OCLC:

932019196