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Mahākālīmāna, circa 1700-1850.
महाकालीमान
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Śaṅkarācārya, attributed name.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Kālī (Hindu deity).
- Kālī.
- Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Genre:
- hymns
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (13 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 15 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2549
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, but more likely written by one of his followers.
- Summary:
- Small manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise of the goddess Kālī.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 13r).
- Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
- 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaparivrājakācāryaśrīma[c]chaṃkarācāryaviracite śrīmahākālīmānasapūjāsamāptaḥ // śrīrāma // (f. 13r).
- 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 1808 (UP 2549).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2549.
- OCLC:
- 969359486
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