Kārtikamāhātmya, 1884; कार्तिकमाहात्म्य,१८८४

Contributor:

Maisūrakara, Viśvanātha Śāstri (scribe)

Date:

1884

Description:

Text for private consultation to be employed in rites and prayers performed during the month of Kārtika (October/November). Rites including bathing, fasting, fire, and other kinds of offerings, as well as numerous mantras that need to be performed during the month Kārtika, which is especially auspicious for the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. Manuscript contains mythology related to this figure.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Bathing customs; Krishna (Hindu deity); Hindu mantras; Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Bathing customs -- Religious aspects; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Vratas; Puja (Hinduism)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuals (instructional materials); prayers (compositions); hymns; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (42 leaves) : paper; 11 x 24 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 42v).; Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.; 42 leaves foliated 1-42, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīsanatkumārasaṃhitāyāṃ kārtikamāhātmye sūryāruṇasaṃvāde vratodyāpanavidhikathanaṃ nāmacaturviṃśodhyāyaḥ // śrīviśveśvarpaṇam astu // śrīrādhādāmodarārpaṇam astu // idaṃ maisūrakaropanāmakaviśvanāthaśāstriṇā likhitam asti // saṃvat 1941 pauṣavadya 2 gurau // śrīsarveṣāṃ śubhaṃ bhūyāt // (f. 42v).; Scribe is Viśvanātha Śāstri Maisūrakara (f. 42v); Dated saṃvat 1941 (1884) (f. 42v).; Mistakes 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 316

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts