Details

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Narayana (Hindu deity).
Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
Caṇḍi (Hindu deity).
Śani (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

There are three texts in the genre of pāñcālī: Maṅgalacaṇḍīpāñcālī; Satyanārāyaṇapāñcālī, Sanira\pāñcāli These texts are used to promote the veneration and devotion to a deity or, in the case of regional Islam, a saint or holy man. Typically such texts are also employed for personal benefits and avoiding dangers through the recitation of the text. This group of texts each focuses on a Hindu deity: the goddess Caṇḍī the god Nārāyaṇa, and the planet Śani (Saturn).

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 20-21 lines per folio.
44 leaves foliated [i-ii, 1r-15r, i-ii, 15v-29v, i-ii, 30r-38r]; there are seven additional photos: six photos of notes (two images before each text) and one photo of the cotton wrapper.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Dated 9 Kārtika, [12]74 Sana (24 October, 1867) (f. 15r); Bengali date of 1274 is also written in a coded form (f. 30r) .
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 14 x 22 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.
Scribe is Pūrṇa Jāmini (f. 30r).
Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: 1322.

Contributor:

Pūrṇa Jāmini, scribe.

OCLC:

921405279