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Title

Kārtikamāhātmya
कार्तिकमाहात्म्य

Other related names

• Maisūrakara, Viśvanātha Śāstri, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 316
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958038433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802809236
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803843

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Text for private consultation to be employed in rites and prayers performed during the month of Kārtika (October/November). Rites including bathing, fasting, fire, and other kinds of offerings, as well as numerous mantras that need to be performed during the month Kārtika, which is especially auspicious for the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. Manuscript contains mythology related to this figure.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 42v).
   
• Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 42 leaves foliated 1-42, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Viśvanātha Śāstri Maisūrakara (f. 42v)
   
• Dated saṃvat 1941 (1884) (f. 42v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (42 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīsanatkumārasaṃhitāyāṃ kārtikamāhātmye sūryāruṇasaṃvāde vratodyāpanavidhikathanaṃ nāmacaturviṃśodhyāyaḥ // śrīviśveśvarpaṇam astu // śrīrādhādāmodarārpaṇam astu // idaṃ maisūrakaropanāmakaviśvanāthaśāstriṇā likhitam asti // saṃvat 1941 pauṣavadya 2 gurau // śrīsarveṣāṃ śubhaṃ bhūyāt // (f. 42v).

Subjects topical

• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Bathing customs--Religious aspects
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Vratas
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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