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Kārtikamāhātmya, 1615. = कार्तिकमाहात्म्य, १६१५.

Publication:
1615.
१६१५.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (56 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 35 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2371
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Standardized Title:
Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Uttarakhaṇḍa. Kārtikamāhātmya.
Subjects:
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Vratas.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu cosmology.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Form/Genre:
Prayers.
Hymns.
Treatises.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Language:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Summary:
Text giving praise (māhātmya) to the Hindu month of Kārtika, also called Urja (October-November), and discussing the various rites and ceremonies that should be performed during this month and the benefits that will be derived from doing so (such as offspring). Text is also a treatise on the worship of various gods (especially Viṣṇu) is discussed, along with the worship of the world-protectors (lokapāla), including Indra, who maintain the four directions in a maṇḍala (circular diagram), and other cosmological and mythical figures. Presented as a dialogue between the deity Kṛṣṇa and one of his two wives, the goddess Satyabhāmā.
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 56v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
56 leaves foliated 1-56, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe uttarakhaṃḍe kārtikamāhātmye jalaṃ[dha]ro pākhyāteṇkonaviśatimodhyāyaḥ // samāptam idaṃ kārtikamāhātmyaṃ // saṃvat // 1672 samayek[ā]rtrikaśudi 15 gurau etat pustakaṃ jaitalīhṛdir[āma]sutavaikuṃṭadāsenālekhiyaroyakār[?? ....] (f. 56v).
Dated saṃvat 1672 samayekārtrikaśudi 15 gurau (Friday, November 6, 1615) (f. 56v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line. Folio 36 is in another scribal hand and on different paper.
Scribe is Vaikuṇṭadāsa son of Jaitalīhṛdirāma (f. 56v).
Non-Latin script record.
Cited in:
Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 1093 (UP 2371).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2371
Contributor:
Vaikuṇṭadāsa, scribe.
OCLC:
794178026