Ṭokarīyapurāṇa, circa 1700-1850; टोकरीयपुराण,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Praise of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu in the form of Govinda (a name for Kṛṣṇa) for the purpose of protection from despondence, which the text warns is caused by obsessing over the delusion of woman's beauty (such as seeing a woman's breast while at home in her bed) and the inevitability of old age, disease, and death. Text may function as a kind of commentary to or rearticulation of some ideas in the Bhagavadgītā, which contains similar and parallel pronouncements and is referred to by the manuscript (f. 2v). Mention is made of the Ganges river, sacred to Hindus and references to songs and singing. Ṭokarīya may refer to a town in the modern state of Gujarat.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Vishnu (Hindu deity); Krishna (Hindu deity); Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Prayers; Hymns; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper; 12 x 21 cm

Geographic Subject:

Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).; Written in 8 lines per leaf.; 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti paribhāṣitasarvāsāraṃ sarvaṃ [astu] (f. 2v).; Mistakes blacked out; verse markers (daṇḍas) highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts