Vaiṣṇavagranthīyapatrāvalī circa 1750-1899.

Abstract:

Work contains twelve different texts taken from a single family library and is a mixture of different genres: philosophical, ritual, devotional, poetic, astrological and more; contains, for example, a number of Vaiṣṇava devotional themes (some drawn from the Bhagavatapūrāṇa, others from devotional Bengali works); there is one particular work with selections from the poetry of Kālidasa as well as the Māhābhārata and contains mantras celebrating Hari (Viṣṇu) and Durgā, and names some local Brahmins: Gaurīcaraṇa Śarmmaṇa, Bhavānīśaṃkara Bhaṭṭācaryya, and Abhayanātha Bhaṭṭācaryya, possibly former owners of that section or family members. There is also a protective work (kavaca) dedicated to Durgā); as well as numerous Tantric works (such as parts of Āgamas, selection from the Mahānirvānatantra, and more), charts and small diagrams with letters and numbers from a personal astrological almanac (pañjika).

Date:

1750

Identifier:

9966939813503681; (OCoLC)ocn920550005; (OCoLC)920550005; (PU)6693981-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.; Devotional literature.; Vaishnavism.; Hindu philosophy.; Bengali language -- Devotional literature.; Hindu astrology.; Bengali language.; Prayers.; Poems.; Diagrams.; Facsimiles.; Manuscripts, Sanskrit.; Manuscripts.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 online resource (17 leaves) : illustrations

Personal Name:

Vishnu; Durgā; Gaurīcaraṇa Śarmmaṇa, associated name.; Abhayanātha Bhaṭṭācaryya, associated name.; Bhavānīśaṃkara Bhaṭṭācaryya, associated name.

Rights:

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.; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Notes:

Dimensions of original manuscript: 12 x 40 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.; 17 leaves with uneven foliation from several different manuscripts taken from a single family library.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Written in 3-15 lines per folio.; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; In Sanskrit and Bengali (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Rāmamālā Library 1636