Vaiṣṇavagranthīyapatrāvalī circa 1750-1899

Contributor:

Gaurīcaraṇa Śarmmaṇa (associated name); Bhavānīśaṃkara Bhaṭṭācaryya (associated name); Abhayanātha Bhaṭṭācaryya (associated name)

Date:

1750

Description:

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).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Vishnu (Hindu deity); Vaishnavism; Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Durgā (Hindu deity); Hindu philosophy; Bengali language -- Devotional literature; Hindu astrology; Bengali language; Devotional literature

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

prayers (compositions); poems; diagrams; facsimiles (reproductions); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (17 leaves) : illustrations

Rights:

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

Rights Note:

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:

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

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1636