Upāṅgalalitāvrata, circa 1700-1850; उपाङ्गललिताव्रत, १७००-१८५०

Contributor:

Mathurānāthadeva (scribe)

Date:

1700

Description:

First part of the manuscript is a short text related to the worship of Lilitā an abbreviated form of the name Upāṅgalalitā, a Hindu goddess popular especially in Maharashtra and considered a form of the goddess Durgā. Second and main part of the manuscript is dedicated to the performance of observances and rites (vrata) such as bathing or sipping water, related to the worship (pūjā) of Upāṅgalalitā, worshiped on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Aśvayuja (September-October). Presented as a conversation between the legendary bard or sūta and the primordial sages (ṛṣis).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Bathing customs; Hindu goddesses; Durgā (Hindu deity); Bards and bardism in literature; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Vratas; Rishis; Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Bathing customs -- India

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); prayers (compositions); hymns; Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Physical Description:

1 item (11 leaves) : paper; 10 x 18 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Table of contents: (Part 1:) Lilitāpūjanavidhi -- (Part 2:) Upāṅgalalitāvrata.; Title of main work from second colophon (f. 11v); title of short first work Lilitāpūjanavidhi from colophon (f. 4r).; Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.; 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: itī śrībhaviṣyottarapurāṇe upāṃgalalitāvratasa[ṃ]pūrṇa[ṃ] // cha // // idaṃ pustakaṃ mathurānāthadevena likhitaṃ ātmapaṭhanārthaṃ paropakārārthaṃ // cha (f. 11v).; Scribe is Mathurānāthadeva (f. 11v).; 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 370

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts