Māghamāhātmya, circa 1700-1850; माघमाहात्म्य, १७००-१८५०

Date:

1892

Description:

Text to be used in public or private veneration and prayer or reading, praising and extolling the virtues of the month of Māgha (January-February) and is especially sacred to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu; contains several Hindu legends about expiating sins (pāpa) during this particular month. Presented as a conversation between the Hindu deity Brahmā and the legendary sage Nārada.

Language:

Sanskrit

Provenance:

Likely composed in the city of Varāṇasī.

Subject:

Sins; Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Hindu mythology; Vishnu (Hindu deity); Nārada (Hindu mythology); Brahma (Hindu deity); Sins -- Religious aspects

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); poems; prayers (compositions); hymns; Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Physical Description:

1 item (70 leaves) : paper; 11 x 24 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from title page / incipit / title abbreviations (f. 70r).; Written in 11-15 lines per leaf.; 70 leaves foliated 1-70, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīvāyupurāṇe māghamāhātmye brahmanāradasaṃvāde triṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ // 60 // iti māghamāhātmyaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīveṇīmādharvārpaṇam astu // om̐ tat sadbrahmārpaṇam astu // śrītriveṇyarpaṇam astu // śrīkāśiviśveśvarādisamastadevatārpaṇam astu // saṃvat 1949 jyeṣṭaśukla 12 bhaume samāptam // śrīparabrahmaparamātmārpaṇam astu // śrīlakṣmīnārāyaṇārpaṇam astu // om̐ śubham // cha // (f. 70r).; Dated saṃvat 1949 (1892) (f. 70r).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 Item 315

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts