University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll 390, Item 2176

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS7322

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll 390, Item 2176

Title:

Pitṛstava

Date:

circa 1856.

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 11 x 21 cm

Note:

Written in 7 lines per leaf.
Blue, European stock of paper with a variety of watermarks including a crest with the goddess Victory bearing a crown, spear, and shield; another watermark bearing the words "Moinier's Fine 1853."
Title from colophon (f. 10r).
Non-Latin script record.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. First (f. 1) and last (f. 10) are double folia, but treated as single folium by the scribe.
Colophon: iti mārkaṃḍeyapurāṇe raucyamanvaṃtare pitṛstavaṃ samāptaṃ // śake 1778 // prabhavanāmasaṃvatsare jyeṣṭhakṛṣṇa 8 samāptaṃ (f. 10r).
Dated śake 1778 prabhavanāmasaṃvatsare jyeṣṭhakṛṣṇa 8 (Thursday, June 26, 1856) (f. 10r).
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

prayers (literary works)

hymns

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Hindu cosmology

Hindu mythology

Puja (Hinduism)

Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Ancestor worship--Hinduism

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9957944113503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p39d4f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania