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Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2183 Gītāmāhātmya / गीतामाहात्म्य

Title

Gītāmāhātmya
गीतामाहात्म्य

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2183
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9957943863503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800361949
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794386

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Small manuscript for use in public or private meditation and prayer. Dedicated to praising the importance of the well-known Hindu work the Bhagavadgītā as a sacred work and expounding on the merits of its recitation, comparing it to visiting various sacred pilgrimage sites (tīrtha). Presented as a dialogue between the wild boar form of Viṣṇu called Varāha and the goddess earth, Pṛthivī. Ends with Vedic mantras.

Notes

Title from colophon (f. 2r).
Written in 9 -10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Non-Latin script record.

Extent

1 item (2 leaves) : 11 x 21 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīvarāhapurāṇe śrībhagavatpṛthivīsaṃvāde gītāmahātmyaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // kecij jīvāḥ kāmyamānāḥ kecitkarmavaśānugāḥ // bhuṃjaṃtumamacochiṣṭhaṃśeṣaṃpātrāt bahikṣipet // r[au]rave pūyanilaye padmārbudanivāsināṃ // arthinām udakaṃ dattam akṣaiyam upatiṣṭhatu // samāptaḥ // (f. 2r).

Subjects topical

Varāha (Hindu deity)
Hindu goddesses
Krishna (Hindu deity)
Vishnu (Hindu deity)
Devotional literature, Sanskrit
Puja (Hinduism)
Songs, Sanskrit
Recitations--Religious aspects
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages
Mantras in the Vedas

Genres

Poems
Prayers
Dialogues
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
Manuscripts--India--18th century
Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

Text

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Images

fol. 1r
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fol. 1v-2r
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3918_0001_thumb.jpg (9.0 KB)
3918_0001_web.jpg (571.0 KB)

fol. 2v
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3918_0002_thumb.jpg (5.6 KB)
3918_0002_web.jpg (325.1 KB)

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