Aṣṭamaskandhacaturthādhyāya, 1700s; अष्टमस्कन्धचतुर्थाध्याय,१७००-१७९९

Date:

1700

Description:

Chapters 2-4 of Book 8 of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, telling the story cycle of the elephant Gajendra. The Hindu deity Viṣṇu descends to earth to save the elephant whose had been caught by a crocodile and grants him salvation; manuscript also contains the first verse of the fifth chapter of the eighth book.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu mythology; Vishnu (Hindu deity); Tales -- India; Tales

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Animal stories; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

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

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons, introductions of speakers, and numbers. Mistakes scribbled over in black.; Written in 7 lines per leaf.; Explicit: śrīśukauvāca // rājannuditametat te hareḥ karmāghanāśanaṃ // (f. 11r); Colophon: iti śrībhāgavate māhāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṃdhe caturthodhyāyaḥ // (f. 11r); Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2397

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts