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Title

Devīmāhātmya
देवीमाहात्म्य

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 368
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957882903503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/798930767
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5788290

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Text praising the form of the Hindu goddess known as Devī during the eighth phase or age of the cosmic cycles and related to Sāvarṇika Manu, name of the eighth primordial human according to Hindu mythology. To be used in public or private recitation or prayer. Manuscript lacks a beginning.

Notes

• Title colophon (f. 120v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 107 leaves foliated 13-14, 16-114, 116-119, [120-121], lower right verso.
   
• 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (107 leaves) : 12 x 17 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti mārkaṃḍeyapurāṇe sāvarṇike manvaṃtare devīmahātmya mūrtirahasyasomaśoḍaṣo 'dhyāyaḥ // 16 // cha // śrībhavāṇirpanam astu // śrīdevīrpaṇam astu // śrījagadaṃbārpaṇa[?] śake 1726 raktākṣināmasa[ṃ]vatsa[re] (f. 120v-121r).

Provenance

• Notes on former owners or sellers.
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu goddesses
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu cosmology

Genres

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

Licenses

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