Details

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Puja (Hinduism).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Durgā (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Dialogues.
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit and Arabic (Bengali and Arabic)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Manuscript is a collection of various kinds of devotional works for the purpose of worship, recitation, meditation, as well as to proclaim the greatness of the goddess Kāmākhyā; takes the form of a dialogue between the Hindu deities Śiva and Durgā. Manuscript has some Arabic and an unidentified Western script at the end (f. 22v).

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 5-6 lines per folio.
22 leaves foliated 1-22, middle right verso; there is one photo of the cotton wrapper.
Title from colophon (f. 22v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Scribe is Umānanda Śarmmaṇa (f. 22v).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 28 cm.
Dated Sana 1260, 8 Phālguna (20 February, 1854 A.D.) (f. 22v).
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 a modern Bengali hand: stava: -; bha: 446 Kra: 6406.

Penn Provenance:

Collected for the Rāmamālā library on Dec 1, 1944 from a local family library; originally owned by Kṛṣṇacandra Bhaṭṭācārya (f. 22v).

Contributor:

Umānanda Śarmmaṇa, scribe.
Kṛṣṇacandra Bhaṭṭācārya, former owner.

OCLC:

920556594