Text giving praise (māhātmya) to the Hindu month of Kārtika, also called Urja (October-November), and discussing the various rites and ceremonies that should be performed during this month and the benefits that will be derived from doing so (such as offspring). Text is also a treatise on the worship of various gods (especially Viṣṇu) is discussed, along with the worship of the world-protectors (lokapāla), including Indra, who maintain the four directions in a maṇḍala (circular diagram), and other cosmological and mythical figures. Presented as a dialogue between the deity Kṛṣṇa and one of his two wives, the goddess Satyabhāmā.
Title from colophon (f. 56v).; Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.; 56 leaves foliated 1-56, lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe uttarakhaṃḍe kārtikamāhātmye jalaṃ[dha]ro pākhyāteṇkonaviśatimodhyāyaḥ // samāptam idaṃ kārtikamāhātmyaṃ // saṃvat // 1672 samayek[ā]rtrikaśudi 15 gurau etat pustakaṃ jaitalīhṛdir[āma]sutavaikuṃṭadāsenālekhiyaroyakār[?? ....] (f. 56v).; Dated saṃvat 1672 samayekārtrikaśudi 15 gurau (Friday, November 6, 1615) (f. 56v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line. Folio 36 is in another scribal hand and on different paper.; Scribe is Vaikuṇṭadāsa son of Jaitalīhṛdirāma (f. 56v).; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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