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Title

Viṣṇuyāgapaddhati
विष्णुयागपद्धति

Authors

• Anantadeva, 17th cent

Other related names

• Jagannāth Āpājī Pārkar Rānjhekar, scribe
• Nānā Sāheb, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 107
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958423413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/813296662
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5842341

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Small manuscript for consultation during the performance of rites and rituals. Manuscript is a guide book or manual for making offerings, gifts, oblations, and sacrifices to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu. Contains formulas for recitation.

Notes

• Title from title colophon (f. 146r); alternate title Viṣṇuyāgaprayoga from back title page (f. 147v).
   
• Written in 5 lines per leaf.
   
• 147 leaves foliated 1-147, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1904 bhādrapadavadya 5 somavāra (Wednesday, 15 September 1847) (f. 146r).
   
• Scribe is Jagannāth Āpājī Pārkar Rānjhekar who lived in Vāraṇasī (f. 146v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; a couple of significant syllables highlighted in red.
   
• Folios 97-147 are written on blue, machine made European paper.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (147 leaves) : 9 x 18 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmadāpadevasutā 'naṃtadevaviduṣākṛte viṣṇuyāgapaddhatiḥ samāptaḥ saṃvat 1904 bhādrapadavadya 5 somavāraśrīgopālakṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // hastākṣara līkhiṃ pustaka jagaṃnnāth āpājī pārakar rāṃjhekar mukām śrīkṣetrakāsī āsī saṃgama // he pustaka nānāsāheb yācī āse // (f. 146r-146v).

Provenance

• Manuscript was commissioned by Nānā Sāheb, possibly the same figure who later became a leader in the Indian rebellion against the British in 1857 A.D.
   

Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Sacrifice--Hinduism
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Recitations--Religious aspects

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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