Aśaucakārikā circa 1750-1899

Contributor:

Rāma Pañcanana (associated name)

Date:

1750

Description:

Manuscript is divided into three parts. Part one is kind of manual of rules (dharma) about a festival associated with the Hindu god Kṛṣṇa; Part two is a set of purifying rituals; Part 3 is an astrological almanac or personal horoscope (pañjika) for a man named Rāma Pañcanana; includes diagrams at end of the manuscript (f. 22r-23v).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Dharma; Hindu astrology; Krishna (Hindu deity); Festivals -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Festivals; Hinduism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuals (instructional materials); facsimiles (reproductions); drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (27 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 4-7 lines per folio.; 27 leaves foliated [i], 1-3, 1-7, [8-23], middle right verso; image 10 verso of Part 2 is missing.; Title from marginal notes (Part 2, f. 1-7 verso); title of second work Dolayātrātattva from cover notes [f. i].; Table of contents: (Part 1) Dolayātrātattva (f. 1r-3v, 1r-1v) -- (Part 2) Aśaucakārikā (1v-16v) -- (Part 3) Pañjikā (f. 17r-23v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 45 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.; In Sanskrit (Bengali); Related Work: Raghunandana. Dolayātrātattva.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 420