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Title

Other related names

• Kāśīnātha Dhādekara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957581653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794379100
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5758165

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Language

Summary

Text praising the dark half (kṛṣṇapakṣa) of the month of the full moon, Pauṣa (December-January), along with the positive results derived from the rites and ceremonies (vrata) performed during that period, especially the giving of sons (putradā). Some of the text is taken up with a discussion of Pauṣaśuklaikādaśī (bright half of the month of Pauṣa) and the colophon refers to the text by this title. Presented as a conversation between the legendary king Yudhiṣṭhira and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa who instructs the former on how to perform certain observances, such proper bathing rites.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Pauṣaśuklaikādaśīputradānāmamāhātmya from colophon (f. 4r). Title on title page (f. 1r) appears to be in a different scribal hand, possibly as a corrective to the alternate title in the colophon, which does not adequately describe the contents of the manuscript.
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Kāśīnātha Dhādekara (f. 4r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology)
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Hindu astrology
• Vratas
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Bathing customs--India

Genres

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

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