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Title

Mantrabhāgavata
मन्त्रभागवत

Authors

• Nīlakaṇṭhabhaṭṭa, 17th cent

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 751
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9952535993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/762151306
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5253599

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Reading and commentary of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa employing verses taken and arranged from the Ṛgveda to reveal its hidden meaning; there are relatively few manuscripts of this text; this is one of three texts from a genre known as Mantrarahasyaprakāśikā by Nīlakaṇṭha. The text opens with commentary and the Vedic mantras are then surrounded by commentary throughout most of rest of the text (f. 5r-41r).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 41v); alternate title Mantrabhāgavatavyākhyā from colophon (f. 41r).
   
• Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 41 leaves foliated 1-41, lower right verso.
   
• Dated Saturday, June 4, 1785 (saṃvat 1842) (f. 41r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; red accents on Vedic verses; double vertical margin lines on two folios (f. 1-2).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (41 leaves) : 13 x 29 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmat tad avāksapramāṇamaryādā dhuraṃdharacaturddharavaṃśāvataṃśagoviṃdasurisūnoḥ nīlakaṃṭhasya kṛtau svoddhaṭatamaṃtrabhāgavatavyākhyāyāṃ maṃtrarahasyaprakāśikāyāṃ madhurākāṃḍaścaturthaḥ // śrīsadāśivojavatisaṃvata 1842 vaiśākhakṛṣṇa 12 vāravudhaḥ śubhaṃbhavatu ghṛṇāśaṃkāspṛhālajjājigu[?]ācetipaṃcamī // kulaṃjāti tathāśīlaṃ aṣṭau pāśāḥ prakītitāḥ pāśavaddho bhavejīvaḥ pādāmuktasadāśivaḥ (f. 41r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras

Genres

• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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