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Viṣṇuyāgapaddhati, 1847. = विष्णुयागपद्धति, १८४७.

Author/Creator:
Anantadeva, active 17th century.
Publication:
1847.
१८४७.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (147 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 18 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 107
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Other Title:
Viṣṇuyāgaprayoga.
Subjects:
Recitations.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Recitations -- Religious aspects.
Form/Genre:
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Language:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Biography/History:
Son of Anantadeva and not the same as the 17th-century commentator of Patañjali named Anantadeva Anantabhaṭṭa.
Summary:
Small manuscript for consultation during the performance of rites and rituals. Manuscript is a guide book or manual for making offerings, gifts, oblations, and sacrifices to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu. Contains formulas for recitation.
Notes:
Title from title colophon (f. 146r); alternate title Viṣṇuyāgaprayoga from back title page (f. 147v).
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
147 leaves foliated 1-147, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadāpadevasutā 'naṃtadevaviduṣākṛte viṣṇuyāgapaddhatiḥ samāptaḥ saṃvat 1904 bhādrapadavadya 5 somavāraśrīgopālakṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // hastākṣara līkhiṃ pustaka jagaṃnnāth āpājī pārakar rāṃjhekar mukām śrīkṣetrakāsī āsī saṃgama // he pustaka nānāsāheb yācī āse // (f. 146r-146v).
Dated saṃvat 1904 bhādrapadavadya 5 somavāra (Wednesday, 15 September 1847) (f. 146r).
Scribe is Jagannāth Āpājī Pārkar Rānjhekar who lived in Vāraṇasī (f. 146v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; a couple of significant syllables highlighted in red.
Folios 97-147 are written on blue, machine made European paper.
Non-Latin script record.
Penn Provenance:
Manuscript was commissioned by Nānā Sāheb, possibly the same figure who later became a leader in the Indian rebellion against the British in 1857 A.D.
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 3328 (UP 107).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 107
Contributor:
Jagannāth Āpājī Pārkar Rānjhekar, scribe.
Nana Sahib, 1820?-1859?, former owner.
OCLC:
813296663