Mārgaśīrṣamāhātmya, 1790. = मार्गशीर्षमाहात्म्य, १७९०.
- Publication:
- 1790.
१७९०. - Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (23 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 32 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 348
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hr88 - Status/Location:
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- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa. Mārgaśīrṣamāhātmya.
- Subjects:
- Krishna (Hindu deity).
Brahma (Hindu deity).
Bhairava (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu astronomy.
Moon -- Religious aspects.
Moon. - Form/Genre:
- Manuals (instructional materials)
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts. - Language:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript employed for consultation and recitation; praises the month of Mārgaśīrṣa (November-December) when the moon enters into the constellation of Mṛgaśiras. Presented as a conversation between the Hindu deities Kṛṣṇa and Brahmā. Praises the god Kālabhairava, a form of the god Śiva. Final folio is damaged and missing some text.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 23r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe mārgaśīrṣamāhātmye mathurāṃāhātmyaṃ nāmaṣo[?]śo[??]yāyaḥ śrīrāmāya namaḥ maṃgalaṃ pāṭakāraṇaṃ lekhakāṇāṃ ca maṃgalamaṃgalaṃ sarvalokāṇaṃ bhumibhūmatiṃ maṃgalaṃ 1 yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭvā tādṛaśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā yadi śuddham aśuddhaṃ vāmama[??]ṣonadīyate 2 (f. 23r).
Colophon (in second hand): idaṃ pustakaṃ dravyadvārālikhapitaṃ / saṃvat 1847 durmatyabde māghakṛṣṇe bhubhaṃbhavat // śrīviśveśaṃ mādhavaṃ ḍhauṃḍhiṃ daṃdapaṇiṃ ca bhairavaṃ / vaṃde kāśīṃ guhāṃ gaṃgāṃ bhavānāṃ maṇikarṇikāṃ // śrīkālabhairavāya namaḥ // śrī // (f. 23r).
Dated saṃvat 1847 (1790) (f. 23r); written in a second scribal hand.
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 black line. Secondary colophon written by second scribal hand (f. 23r).
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 1529 (UP 348).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 348
- OCLC:
- 802826596