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Title

Prayāgamāhātmya
प्रयागमाहात्म्य

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2428
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958038323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802289151
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803832

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript employed for private or public recitation or prayer, praising the greatness of the sacred pilgrimage center of Prāyāga (modern day Allahabad) and presenting mythological accounts of its origin, and power as well as accounts of various Hindu gods, especially Viṣṇu. Contains twelve chapters in total.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 53v).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 53 leaves foliated 1-53, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1859 (1802) (f. 53v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Title on front cover (f. 1r) is written upside down.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (53 leaves) : 12 x 19 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrī matsyapurāṇe prayāgamāhātmye dvādaśodhyāyaḥ cha 12 cha saṃ[vat] 1859 māghe māsi kṛṣṇapakṣe saptamīmaṃdavāsare prayāgamādhavakṣetre makaraṃ dolikhadvijaḥ 1 // lekhakṛpāṭhakayoḥ śubhaṃ bhūyāt śrīgurucaṇasamarthitaṃ // (f. 53v).

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Hindu mythology
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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