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Title

Gītā mahātama

Authors

• Kiśorīdāsa

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2638
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968148993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/932231447
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6814899

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Panjabi

Summary

Synopsis of the Bhagavadgītā, giving a highlight and celebrating the greatness (māhātmya) of each of the work's 18 chapters, along with lauding the benefits of reading the text. Derived from a larger work, the full Bhagvadagītā giānu, which typically contains the Sanskrit original and Hindi prose paraphrase of the Sanskrit.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 104 leaves foliated 1-70 [71-104], upper left recto.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some minor corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red and single black line.
   
• Manuscript is bound with string along left edge of manuscript in codex format though written on locally made paper.
   

Extent

1 item (104 leaves) : 12 x 17 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Panjabi literature

Genres

• Prayers
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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