Satyanārāyaṇa Pāñcālī circa 1750-1899

Name:

Rāmakr̥ṣṇa, Daivajña

Date:

1750

Description:

Manuscript is a Pāñcālī, 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:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Prayers; Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; Devotional literature; manuscripts (documents)

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 6-8 lines per folio.; 11 leaves foliated 1-11, middle right verso; additional image of cotton wrapper.; Title from colophon (f. 11v).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 12 x 39 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.; Numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: 340.; In Bengali (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 6731