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Title

Māghamāhātmya
माघमाहात्म्य

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 315
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957943913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800369209
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794391

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Text to be used in public or private veneration and prayer or reading, praising and extolling the virtues of the month of Māgha (January-February) and is especially sacred to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu; contains several Hindu legends about expiating sins (pāpa) during this particular month. Presented as a conversation between the Hindu deity Brahmā and the legendary sage Nārada.

Notes

• Title from title page / incipit / title abbreviations (f. 70r).
   
• Written in 11-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 70 leaves foliated 1-70, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1949 (1892) (f. 70r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (70 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīvāyupurāṇe māghamāhātmye brahmanāradasaṃvāde triṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ // 60 // iti māghamāhātmyaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīveṇīmādharvārpaṇam astu // om̐ tat sadbrahmārpaṇam astu // śrītriveṇyarpaṇam astu // śrīkāśiviśveśvarādisamastadevatārpaṇam astu // saṃvat 1949 jyeṣṭaśukla 12 bhaume samāptam // śrīparabrahmaparamātmārpaṇam astu // śrīlakṣmīnārāyaṇārpaṇam astu // om̐ śubham // cha // (f. 70r).

Provenance

• Likely composed in the city of Varāṇasī.
   

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mythology
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Nārada (Hindu mythology)
• Brahmā (Hindu deity)
• Sins--Religious aspects

Genres

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

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