Satyanārāyaṇapāñcālī circa 1750-1899

Name:

Manuhara Śena

Date:

1750

Description:

Manuscript is a pāñcalī, a kind of devotional poetic text associate with a particular deity (deva) which is recited during the worship (pūjā) of a deity. These are typically performed either by Hindus to the deity Nārāyaṇa or by Muslims to a representation of a saint/holy man (pīr),

Language:

Bengali

Subject:

Narayana (Hindu deity); Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity); Puja (Hinduism); Worship (Hinduism); Worship (Islam); Rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh; Rites and ceremonies

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Prayers; Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 online resource (11 leaves) : illustrations

Geographic Subject:

Bangladesh

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rights Note:

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.

Notes:

Written in 4-5 lines per folio.; 11 leaves foliated 2-12, middle right verso; there is one photo of the cotton cover and one of the accompanying notes.; Title from wrapper notes.; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 12 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.; Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: 1181.; In Bengali (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 7013