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Bhagavadgītāmāhātmya, circa 1700-1850; भगवद्गीतामाहात्म्य,१७००-१८५०

Date:
1700
Description:
Small manuscript likely carried as a kind of pocket booklet for use in private meditation and prayer. Dedicated to praising the importance of the well-known Hindu work, the Bhagavadgītā, as a sacred work and expounding on the merits of its recitation, comparing it to visiting various sacred pilgrimage sites (tīrtha). Text opens with a praise to the god Pāṇḍuraṅga, a child form of the deity Kṛṣṇa, popular especially in Maharashtra; presented as a dialogue between the wild boar form of Viṣṇu, called Varāha, and the goddess earth, Pṛthivī.
Language:
Sanskrit
Subject:
Recitations; Varāha (Hindu deity); Pāṇḍuraṅga (Hindu deity); Hindu goddesses; Krishna (Hindu deity); Vishnu (Hindu deity); Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Puja (Hinduism); Songs, Sanskrit; Recitations -- Religious aspects; Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
Poems; Prayers; Dialogues; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts
Physical Description:
1 item (3 leaves) : paper; 8 x 12 cm
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 3r).; Written in 9 lines per leaf.; 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti vārāhapu[rāṇe] śrīmahāvārāhapṛthivīsaṃ[vāde] śrībhagavadgītāmāhātmyaṃ saṃ[āptaṃ] śrī (f. 3r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; border margins marked with double red line.; Threaded on left side like a booklet.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390
Collection:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts