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Title

Cāturmāsyamāhātmya
चातुर्मास्यमाहात्म्य

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2353
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957944013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800400936
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794401

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Presents legends about and praises the importance of the Cāturmāsaya, special four months in the Hindu calendar during the rainy season (Śrāvaṇa-Kārtika or July-November), prescribing special sacrifices to be performed and the benefits that will befall those who perform them. Presented as a dialogue between the deity Varāha (boar avatāra of Viṣṇu) and Dhāraṇī.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 110r).
   
• Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 110 leaves foliated 1-110, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1718 (f. 110r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (110 leaves) : 19 x 30 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmadvārāhapurāṇe dharaṇīvārāhasaṃvāde cāturmāsya māhātmye saptaviṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ // 27 // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // śake 1718 // nalanāmasaṃvat kārttikaśuklacaturthyāṃ guruvāsare m[ā]hātmya samāptaṃ // cha // śrīlakṣmīkāṃta // śrī (f. 110r).

Subjects topical

• Varāha (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Vratas
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu calendar

Genres

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

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