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Kāmākṣarī 1854.

Abstract:
Manuscript is a collection of various kinds of devotional works for the purpose of worship, recitation, meditation, as well as to proclaim the greatness of the goddess Kāmākhyā; takes the form of a dialogue between the Hindu deities Śiva and Durgā. Manuscript has some Arabic and an unidentified Western script at the end (f. 22v).
Date:
1854
Identifier:
9966958483503681; (OCoLC)ocn920556594; (OCoLC)920556594; (PU)6695848-penndb-Voyager
Language:
Sanskrit
Provenance:
Collected for the Rāmamālā library on Dec 1, 1944 from a local family library; originally owned by Kṛṣṇacandra Bhaṭṭācārya (f. 22v).
Subject:
Puja (Hinduism); Devotional literature, Sanskrit.; Hindu goddesses.; Hindu mythology.; Manuscripts.; Dialogues.; Facsimiles.; Manuscripts, Sanskrit.; Poems.
Resource Type:
Manuscripts
Physical Description:
1 online resource (22 leaves) : illustrations
Personal Name:
Siva; Durgā; Umānanda Śarmmaṇa, scribe.; Kṛṣṇacandra Bhaṭṭācārya, former owner.
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: 9 x 28 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.; Dated Sana 1260, 8 Phālguna (20 February, 1854 A.D.) (f. 22v).; Scribe is Umānanda Śarmmaṇa (f. 22v).; Written in 5-6 lines per folio.; 22 leaves foliated 1-22, middle right verso; there is one photo of the cotton wrapper.; Title from colophon (f. 22v).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: stava: -; bha: 446 Kra: 6406.; In Sanskrit and Arabic (Bengali and Arabic)
Physical Location:
Rāmamālā Library 1651