Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Ṭokarāyapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Praise of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu in the form of Govinda (a name for Kṛṣṇa) for the purpose of protection from despondence, which the text warns is caused by obsessing over the delusion of woman's beauty (such as seeing a woman's breast while at home in her bed) and the inevitability of old age, disease, and death. Text may function as a kind of commentary to or rearticulation of some ideas in the Bhagavadgītā, which contains similar and parallel pronouncements and is referred to by the manuscript (f. 2v). Mention is made of the Ganges river, sacred to Hindus and references to songs and singing. Ṭokarīya may refer to a town in the modern state of Gujarat.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti paribhāṣitasarvāsāraṃ sarvaṃ [astu] (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; verse markers (daṇḍas) highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 1136 (UP 2633).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2633

OCLC:

794415289