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Title

Other related names

• Bhīkaṃbhaṭṭa, Mauni (son of Viśvanātha), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957943933503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800373437
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794393

Publisher

Language

Summary

Text celebrating the greatness of and presenting mythology related to the Hindu sacred pilgrimage center Prayāga (modern Allahabad). Presented as a discourse between Śiva's follower Nandi and the legendary sage Nārada.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 20v).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scibe is Mauni Bhīkaṃbhaṭṭa, son of Viśvanātha (f. 20v).
   
• Dated saṃvat 1863 and śaka 1728 (Wednesday, December 24, 1806 A.D.) (f. 20v).
   
• 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 red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages
• Sacred space--India
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Nārada (Hindu mythology)
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 363: Prayāgamāhātmya are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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