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Title

Vāmanapurāṇa
वामनपुराण

Other related names

• Jaṃtalīrāma Bhaṭṭa, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2172
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9951887233503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760222971
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5188723

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Contains stories and myths about the Hindu deity Vāmana, the dwarf avatāra of Viṣṇu; also contains stories and myths about the Hindu deity Śiva as the result of additions made by the Pāśupata sect of Śaivism.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 133 leaves foliated 1-133, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1679 (1757) (f. 133r).
   
• Scribe is Jaṃtalīrāma Bhaṭṭa, likely from the village Jaṃtalī in Uttara Pradeśa.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins; verse markers in red; vertical margins marked with double red line; decorative floral borders on front and back folios (f. 1r, 133v).
   
• Original orange canvas wrapping and cord accompanies manuscript.
   

Extent

1 item (133 leaves) : 19 x 47 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīvāmanapurāṇe pulassanārada saṃvādevāmanapurāṇaṃ samāptaṃ // jaṃtalīrāmabhaṭṭena likhitaṃ // // śake 1679 neyā pravarttamāne īśvaranāmasaṃvatsare dakṣiṇāyane śaradṛtau kārttākeyāsikṛṣṇapakṣe 5 vudhavāre puṣyanakṣatre brahmanāmayoge tad dine samāptaḥ // graṃthasaṃkhyā 600600 // (f. 132v-133r).

Subjects topical

• Vāmana (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology

Genres

• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated front, f. 1r