There are three texts in the genre of pāñcālī: Maṅgalacaṇḍīpāñcālī; Satyanārāyaṇapāñcālī, Sanira\pāñcāli These texts are used to promote the veneration and devotion to a deity or, in the case of regional Islam, a saint or holy man. Typically such texts are also employed for personal benefits and avoiding dangers through the recitation of the text. This group of texts each focuses on a Hindu deity: the goddess Caṇḍī the god Nārāyaṇa, and the planet Śani (Saturn).
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Dimensions of original manuscript: 14 x 22 cm.; Scribe is Pūrṇa Jāmini (f. 30r).; 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.; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; Written in 20-21 lines per folio.; 44 leaves foliated [i-ii, 1r-15r, i-ii, 15v-29v, i-ii, 30r-38r]; there are seven additional photos: six photos of notes (two images before each text) and one photo of the cotton wrapper.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Dated 9 Kārtika, [12]74 Sana (24 October, 1867) (f. 15r); Bengali date of 1274 is also written in a coded form (f. 30r) .; Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: 1322.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)
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