Gītāmāhātmya, circa 1700-1850; गीतामाहात्म्य,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Small manuscript for use in public or 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). Presented as a dialogue between the wild boar form of Viṣṇu called Varāha and the goddess earth, Pṛthivī. Ends with Vedic mantras.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Recitations; Varāha (Hindu deity); Hindu goddesses; Krishna (Hindu deity); Vishnu (Hindu deity); Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Puja (Hinduism); Songs, Sanskrit; Recitations -- Religious aspects; Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages; Mantras in the Vedas

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Prayers; Dialogues; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper; 11 x 21 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r).; Written in 9 -10 lines per leaf.; 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīvarāhapurāṇe śrībhagavatpṛthivīsaṃvāde gītāmahātmyaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // kecij jīvāḥ kāmyamānāḥ kecitkarmavaśānugāḥ // bhuṃjaṃtumamacochiṣṭhaṃśeṣaṃpātrāt bahikṣipet // r[au]rave pūyanilaye padmārbudanivāsināṃ // arthinām udakaṃ dattam akṣaiyam upatiṣṭhatu // samāptaḥ // (f. 2r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; 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