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Gītā mahātama, circa 1700-1850

Name:
Kiśorīdāsa
Date:
1700
Description:
Synopsis of the Bhagavadgītā, giving a highlight and celebrating the greatness (māhātmya) of each of the work's 18 chapters, along with lauding the benefits of reading the text. Derived from a larger work, the full Bhagvadagītā giānu, which typically contains the Sanskrit original and Hindi prose paraphrase of the Sanskrit.
Language:
Lahnda
Subject:
Hindu mythology; Panjabi literature
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
Prayers; Poems; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)
Physical Description:
1 item (104 leaves) : paper; 12 x 17 cm
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.; Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.; 104 leaves foliated 1-70 [71-104], upper left recto.; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some minor corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red and single black line.; Manuscript is bound with string along left edge of manuscript in codex format though written on locally made paper.; In Panjabi (Lahndā or Gurmukhi)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2638
Collection:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts