Details

Subjects:

Caṇḍi (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh.
Rites and ceremonies.
Bangladesh.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Instructions on how to properly read devotional texts dedicated to Caṇḍī, a popular regional goddess, important to Bengali culture. A decorative pattern is drawn on the inside of the outer bamboo cover.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 9 lines per folio.
1 leaf; there are five additional photos, four of the bamboo and wooden covers and on of the newspaper wrapping and its notes.
Title from notes in margin (f. 1v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 6 x 35 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 a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 6233.

OCLC:

921436465