Lambodarāṣṭaka 1896

Contributor:

Kṛṣṇacaraṇa Śarmmaṇa (scribe); Rajanīkānta Bhaṭṭācārya (former owner)

Date:

1896

Description:

Devotional text dedicated to the elephant-headed Hindu deity Gaṇeśa going by the name of Lambodara (the potbellied one); unknown commentary running above and below the root text.

Language:

Sanskrit

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Rajanīkānta Bhaṭṭācārya who lived in Hājipura, Bangladesh.

Subject:

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity); Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Commentaries; Prayers; Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 leaves) : illustrations

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 2-6 lines per folio.; 4 leaves foliated [1-2], [4-5], one folio in the middle (f. 3) is missing from the original manuscript as determined by the order of verses; there is one photo of the newspaper wrapping.; Title from colophon (f. 5r); alternate title Lambodarajananīstotra derived from notes on manuscript wrapper.; Dated Sana 1303, 18 Vaiśākha (Friday, May 1st, 1896) (f. 5r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 34 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.; Scribe is Kṛṣṇacaraṇa Śarmmaṇa (f. 5r).; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1163