Manuscript consists of three devotional works for use in rituals; the first, Annapūrṇāstotra (f. 1r), is a prayer to the goddess Annapūrṇā, a form of the deity Durgā; the second work, the Durgākavaca (f. 1r), is a kind of protective amulet in text form, recited during the performance of protective rites related to the goddess Durgā; the final text Durgāśatanāmastotra (f. 1v) is a devotional text dedicated to the 1,000 names of the Hindu goddess Durgā.
Language:
Sanskrit
Provenance:
Manuscript was collected from a private family library on April 12th, 1944.
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 10-11 lines per folio.; 1 leaf.; Title from colophon (f. 1v); title of first text Annapūrṇāstotra from incipit (f. 1r, line 6); title of second text Durgākavaca from internal colophon (f. 1r, final line in right margin).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper may once have been treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 37 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 modern Bengali hand: Kra: 6409; bha: 496.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1650
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