Vaiṣṇavatattvāvalī circa 1750-1899

Date:

1750

Description:

Vaiṣṇava text dedicated to the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa and mentioning his relationship to cow-herd girls (gopīs).

Language:

Sanskrit

Provenance:

Given to Rāmamālā Library on May 5th, 1946, from an unknown personal library.

Subject:

Krishna (Hindu deity); Vaishnavism; Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Hindu mantras

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Prayers; Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 leaves) : illustrations

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.; 2 leaves foliated [1-2].; Title supplied by cataloger.; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.; Incipit:: śrīkṛṣṇacaitanyacandrāya namaḥ // (f. 1r).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 10 x 35 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.; Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 6226; Bhakti: 57.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1609