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Title

Kāśīkhaṇḍa
काशीखण्ड

Authors

• Rāmānanda (son of Rāmendravana)

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2357
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958066013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/804815336
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5806601

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript employed for consultation and contemplation, highlighting especially the sacred pilgrimage spots around the Hindu center of Vārāṇasī. Text also contains mythology connected to various gods and goddesses, especially those sacred to the deity Śiva in his manifestation as a liṅga, his amorphous symbol. Presented as a discourse between the deity Skanda-Kārttikeya and various other legendary figures, such as the sage Agstya. Manuscript contains 100 chapters, but is missing some folios throughout; some of the text is written in what is likely a second scribal hand. Manuscript contains a commentary by Rāmānanda running horizontally above and below the main text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 174r).
   
• Written in 11-21 lines per leaf.
   
• 172 leaves foliated 1-13, 15-19, 21-31, 24-31, 38-60, 62-120, 122-174, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1815 (1758) (f. 174r).
   
• 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 two double black lines. Second scribal hand has supplied some of the missing folios and ineffectively refoliated some of the existing foliation obscuring the original.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (172 leaves) : 17 x 33 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe kāśīkhaṃḍe anukramaṇikānāmaśattamodhyāyaḥ 100 śrīśivārpaṇam astu kāśīkhaṃdasamāptaḥ // (f. 174r).

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Lingas (Śaivism)
• Sacred space--India
• Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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