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Title

Devīmāhātmya
দেবীমাহাত্ম্য

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2416
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957972513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/801654753
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5797251

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Text praising the form of the Hindu goddess known as Devī during the eighth phase or age of the cosmic cycles and related to Sāvarṇika Manu, name of the eighth primordial human according to Hindu mythology. Manuscript to be used in public or private recitation, prayer, or reflection.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 51v).
   
• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
   
• 54 leaves foliated , middle left verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Floral and triangle patterns on back folio in red and black ink.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (54 leaves) : 8 x 21 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti mārkkaṇḍeyapurāṇe sāvarṇike devīmāhātmyadevīvākyan // (f. 51v).

Subjects topical

• Hindu goddesses
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu cosmology

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 54v — Illustration, f. 54v