Details

Subjects:

Durgā (Hindu deity).
Annapūrṇā (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Amulets (Hinduism).
Rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh.
Rites and ceremonies.
Bangladesh.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Manuscript consists of three devotional works for use in rituals; the first, Annapūrṇāstotra (f. 1r), is a prayer to the goddess Annapūrṇā, a form of the deity Durgā; the second work, the Durgākavaca (f. 1r), is a kind of protective amulet in text form, recited during the performance of protective rites related to the goddess Durgā; the final text Durgāśatanāmastotra (f. 1v) is a devotional text dedicated to the 1,000 names of the Hindu goddess Durgā.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 10-11 lines per folio.
1 leaf.
Title from colophon (f. 1v); title of first text Annapūrṇāstotra from incipit (f. 1r, line 6); title of second text Durgākavaca from internal colophon (f. 1r, final line in right margin).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper may once have been treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 37 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 in modern Bengali hand: Kra: 6409; bha: 496.

Penn Provenance:

Manuscript was collected from a private family library on April 12th, 1944.

OCLC:

920551228