Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2371: Kārtikamāhātmya University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2371: Kārtikamāhātmya are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from colophon (f. 56v). Written in 8-9 lines per leaf. 56 leaves foliated 1-56, lower right verso. Dated saṃvat 1672 samayekārtrikaśudi 15 gurau (Friday, November 6, 1615) (f. 56v). Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line. Folio 36 is in another scribal hand and on different paper. Scribe is Vaikuṇṭadāsa son of Jaitalīhṛdirāma (f. 56v). Non-Latin script record. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2371 9957556273503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794176873 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5755627 Text giving praise (māhātmya) to the Hindu month of Kārtika, also called Urja (October-November), and discussing the various rites and ceremonies that should be performed during this month and the benefits that will be derived from doing so (such as offspring). Text is also a treatise on the worship of various gods (especially Viṣṇu) is discussed, along with the worship of the world-protectors (lokapāla), including Indra, who maintain the four directions in a maṇḍala (circular diagram), and other cosmological and mythical figures. Presented as a dialogue between the deity Kṛṣṇa and one of his two wives, the goddess Satyabhāmā. In Sanskrit Kārtikamāhātmya कार्तिकमाहात्म्य scribe Vaikuṇṭadāsa Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe uttarakhaṃḍe kārtikamāhātmye jalaṃ[dha]ro pākhyāteṇkonaviśatimodhyāyaḥ // samāptam idaṃ kārtikamāhātmyaṃ // saṃvat // 1672 samayek[ā]rtrikaśudi 15 gurau etat pustakaṃ jaitalīhṛdir[āma]sutavaikuṃṭadāsenālekhiyaroyakār[?? ....] (f. 56v).

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 1 item (56 leaves) : 13 x 35 cm Vishnu (Hindu deity) Krishna (Hindu deity) Hindu goddesses Vratas Puja (Hinduism) Hindu cosmology Rites and ceremonies--India Prayers Hymns Treatises Dialogues Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century Manuscripts--India--17th century