Details

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Vaishnavism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Treatises.
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Manuscript used in rites of worship and prayer and outlines rules and procedures related to Vaiṣṇava worship (bhakti), especially focused on the relationship between the Gopī (cow-herd girls) and Hari (name of Viṣṇu used in place of Kṛṣṇa).

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 9-13 lines per folio.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, middle right verso; there is one photo of the newspaper wrapping and notes; the photo for folio 5 verso is missing.
Title from verse 8 (f. 2r); alternate title Haribhaktimatādvādaśaśuddhyādi from manuscript wrapping.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; treated with yellow turmeric power to protect manuscript from insects.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 10 x 34 cm.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
Notes and numbers written on manuscript in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 3599; Bhakti: 24; Bhakti 78.

Penn Provenance:

Collected from family library into the Rāmamālā Library on Aug. 20th, 1943, according to wrapper notes.

OCLC:

920541470