University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll 390, Item 1447

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS7439

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll 390, Item 1447

Title:

Compendium of Vratas

Date:

circa 1700-1850.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 11 x 22 cm

Former Owner(s):

Mahadevabhaṭṭa, active 18th century

Mahadevabhaṭṭa WIKIDATA

Gaṇeśabhaṭṭa

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Formerly housed as three separate manuscripts: Item 1447, Item 1448, and Item 1451. These items are written on the same type of paper with the same European watermarks and by the same scribal hand. The same scribe and paper were also used for Item 1453, Item 1454, Item 1455, Item 1456, and Item 1459, but are not clearly from the same manuscript.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
32 leaves foliated 46-72, and 130-134, lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīmatsyapurāṇe kṛṣṇārjunasaṃvāde ekādaśīvratakathāsaṃpūrṇā // (f. 66v)
Non-Latin script record.
Formerly owned by Māhādevabhaṭṭa and Gaṇeśabhaṭṭa, based on the colophon of related manuscript Item 1459 (f. 4); one of whom may also have been the scribe of this manuscript.

Keyword:

prayers (literary works)

manuals (instructional materials)

hymns

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)

Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Bathing customs

Vratas

Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Puja (Hinduism)

India

Cows--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Rites and ceremonies

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958374983503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3zk1x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania