Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Kś̄īmāhātmya

Subjects:

Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).
Hindu mythology.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Lingas (Śaivism).
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hindu mythology, the first five chapters (adhyāya) of a text praising the greatness of the city of lights (Kāśīmāhātmya), referring to the city of Vārāṇasī; particularly important to the Hindu deity Śiva and liṅga worship; says that the city will help to expiate sins and give merit to those who visit there; noted as being a section of the Pātālakhaṇḍa of the Padmapurāṇa.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīkāśīmāhātmyaṃ saṃpūrṇam astu // śrīkāśīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // om̐ tat sah brahmārpaṇam astu // śrīgurubhyo namaḥ // saṃvat 1969 pauṣakṛṣṇa 12 śanau // padmapurāṇoddhṛtaṃ śrīrasamayasiddhānuvāditaṃ kāśīmāhāt[m]yaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 18r).
Dated saṃvat 1969 pauṣakṛṣṇe 12 śanau (Monday, February 3, 1913) (f. 18r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Non-Latin script record.

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 1094 (UP 313).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 313

OCLC:

779616939