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Title

Gaṇeśāvatāravarṇana
गणेशावतारवर्णन

Other related names

• Khare, Viṣṇubhaṭa, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2208
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958213723503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809542658
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5821372

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript employed for private or public consultation, recitation, and prayer, dedicated to the description and mythology related to various avatāras (manifestations) of the Hindu elephant-headed deity Gaṇeśa. Presented as a dialogue between the deities Śiva and Skanda.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 86v).
   
• Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 87 leaves foliated 1-88, [87], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1788 (1866) (f. 86v).
   
• Scribe is Viṣṇubhaṭa Khare (f. 86r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• European paper with watermarks feature an emblem with a crown and the company name "D & G Superfine Foolscap" imprinted on the final folio (f. 87).
   

Extent

1 item (87 leaves) : 13 x 20 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe vināyakamāhātmye śivaskaṃdasaṃvāde gaṇeśāvatāravarṇananāmacaturviśatitaṃodhyāyaḥ // 24 // śrībhālacaṃdragajānanārpaṇam astu // śubhaṃ bhavaṃtu // śake 1788 dakṣiṇāyanepauṣaśuddha 5 guruvārasaraṃ samāptaṃ khare ityupamāmakaviṣṇubhaṭena likhitaṃ // maṃgalaṃ lekhakā[n]āṃ ca pāṭakānāṃ ca maṃgalaṃ maṃgalaṃ sarvadevānāṃ bhūmau bhūpati maṃgalaṃ // śrīgajānanaḥ // śrīsiddhivināyakaprasan // bahudhānya 2 nāmasaṃvatsare idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 86v-87v).

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Avatars (Religion)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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