Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Vāmanapurāṇa

Subjects:

Vāmana (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Contains stories and myths about the Hindu deity Vāmana, the dwarf avatāra of Viṣṇu; also contains stories and myths about the Hindu deity Śiva as the result of additions made by the Pāśupata sect of Śaivism.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
133 leaves foliated 1-133, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīvāmanapurāṇe pulassanārada saṃvādevāmanapurāṇaṃ samāptaṃ // jaṃtalīrāmabhaṭṭena likhitaṃ // // śake 1679 neyā pravarttamāne īśvaranāmasaṃvatsare dakṣiṇāyane śaradṛtau kārttākeyāsikṛṣṇapakṣe 5 vudhavāre puṣyanakṣatre brahmanāmayoge tad dine samāptaḥ // graṃthasaṃkhyā 600600 // (f. 132v-133r).
Dated śaka 1679 (1757) (f. 133r).
Scribe is Jaṃtalīrāma Bhaṭṭa, likely from the village Jaṃtalī in Uttara Pradeśa.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins; verse markers in red; vertical margins marked with double red line; decorative floral borders on front and back folios (f. 1r, 133v).
Original orange canvas wrapping and cord accompanies manuscript.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 1447 (UP 2172).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2172

Contributor:

Jaṃtalīrāma Bhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

760218687