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Title

Kārtikamāhātmya
कार्तिकमाहात्म्य

Other related names

• Bālambhaṭṭamuni, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 334
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958038473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802809280
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803847

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit and Marathi

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. 82v).
   
• Written in 8-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 82 leaves foliated 1-82, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1876 (1819) (f. 82v).
   
• 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 double red line on one side of each folio.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (82 leaves) : 10 x 23 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti sanatkumārasaṃhitāyāṃ kātikamāhātmye ṣadviṃśodhyāyaḥ // 26 // śrokasaṃkhyā // 1330 // sa[ṃva]t 1876 kṛtināmasa[ṃ]vatsare mārgaśīrṣakṛṣṇa 11 maṃdavāsare tad dine kārtikamāhātmasapahe pustakavālaṃbhaṭa[m]auniyāca āso / yāddaśaṃpustakaṃ dṛṣṭātādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā // śudhaṃ maśudhaṃvā mamadāṣonalikhyato // 1 // cha śrīśadhādāmodarārpaṇam astu // śubhaṃbhavatu // śrīvisveśvarārpaṇam astu // idaṃ pustakaṃ vākaṃbhaṭṭamaunī likhitaṃ // cha // (f. 82v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned and commissioned by Bālambhaṭṭamuni (f. 82v).
   

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

Licenses

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