Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Varāhapurāṇa. Bhagavadgītāmāhātmya.

Subjects:

Recitations.
Varāha (Hindu deity).
Pāṇḍuraṅga (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Puja (Hinduism).
Songs, Sanskrit.
Recitations -- Religious aspects.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript likely carried as a kind of pocket booklet for use in private meditation and prayer. Dedicated to praising the importance of the well-known Hindu work, the Bhagavadgītā, as a sacred work and expounding on the merits of its recitation, comparing it to visiting various sacred pilgrimage sites (tīrtha). Text opens with a praise to the god Pāṇḍuraṅga, a child form of the deity Kṛṣṇa, popular especially in Maharashtra; presented as a dialogue between the wild boar form of Viṣṇu, called Varāha, and the goddess earth, Pṛthivī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vārāhapu[rāṇe] śrīmahāvārāhapṛthivīsaṃ[vāde] śrībhagavadgītāmāhātmyaṃ saṃ[āptaṃ] śrī (f. 3r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; border margins marked with double red line.
Threaded on left side like a booklet.
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 1437 (UP 2345).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2345

OCLC:

800400148