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Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1669 Aduḥkhanavamīvratakathā / अदुःखनवमीव्रतकथा

Title

Aduḥkhanavamīvratakathā
अदुःखनवमीव्रतकथा

Other related names

Vaḷe, Mādhava, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1669
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9958140423503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/807974406
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5814042

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for private or public consultation and recitation during observances performed on the ninth day in the bright half of the month of Bhaudra (August/September) in honor of the Great Goddess (Mahādevī), whom women worship to avert evil in the coming year. Presented as a discourse between the legendary author Vyāsa and the sages (ṛṣis).

Notes

Scribe is Mādhava Vaḷe (f. 3r).
Title from colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, middle left and right verso.
Dated śaka 1720 bhāddapadaśukla 11 (Friday, September 21, 1798) (f. 3r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Non-Latin script record.

Extent

1 item (3 leaves) : 10 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe vyāsaṛṣisaṃvāde adu[ḥ]khanavamīvratakathāsaṃpurṇaṃ // śrīlakṣmīnārasiṃhārpaṇam astu // śake 1720 kālayuktanāmasaṃvatsare [6] bhāddapadaśuklaikādaśyāṃ valeyupanāmakamādhavena likhitaṃ // cha (f. 3r).

Subjects topical

Hindu goddesses
Vratas
Rites and ceremonies--India
Women--Religious aspects--Hinduism
Good and evil--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

Manuals (instructional materials)
Prayers
Dialogues
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

Text

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fol. 2v-3r
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fol. 3v
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