Collection of family names and lineages, especially for local Bangladesh Brahmans who want to connect themselves to established lineages from the mytho-historical past. Such lineages give local Brahmans the authority to perform rituals, marriages, funerals, and the like. Mentions, for example, the lineages of the great Ṛṣis like Kāśyapa, Jamadagni, Vaśiṣṭa, Bharadvāja, Bhṛgu and others. One person is named at the beginning of the manuscript: Bhāratīkānta, identified as a viśārada (great scholar). The manuscript is incomplete.
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 4-6 lines per folio.; 5 leaves foliated 1-4, [5], middle right verso.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 37 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: 5928; Dha: 636.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 2195
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