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Pitṛstava, circa 1856. = पितृस्तव, १८५६.

Publication:
circa 1856.
१८५६.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (10 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2176
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Subjects:
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Ancestor worship -- Hinduism.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mythology.
Hindu cosmology.
Form/Genre:
Hymns.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Language:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Summary:
Small manuscript to be employed in private or public recitation or prayer praising and eulogizing ancestors (pitṛ). Related to the age of the thirteenth cosmic man named Raucya Manu (f. 10r).
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 10r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
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).
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.
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."
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 1419 (UP 2176).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2176
OCLC:
800401044