Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 340: Prayāgamāhātmya University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 340: Prayāgamāhātmya 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 ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts 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. 40r). Written in 9 lines per leaf. 40 leaves foliated 1-40, upper left and lower right verso. Dated saṃvat 1875 (1818) (f. 40r); the date śaka 1740 (1818). 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; some pages treated with yellow dye; appears to be the same scribal hand, size and type of paper, as Item 339. 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 340 9954526273503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/781296222 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5452627 Promotes the greatness of the town of Prayāga (modern Allahabad) as a pilgrimage center sacred to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu and all of the benefits associated with such sacred centers (removal of sin, worldly benefits, release from the cycle of life and death, etc.); presented as a discourse between the deity Brahmā and the legendary figure Nārada; originally housed together with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 339. In Sanskrit Prayāgamāhātmya प्रयागमाहात्म्य Colophon: iti śrībrahmāṃḍapurāṇe prayāgamāhātmye brahmanāradasaṃvāde dvādaśodhyāyaḥ // 12 // 30 // saṃ[vat] // 1875 // (f. 40r).

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 1 item (40 leaves) : 10 x 25 cm Vishnu (Hindu deity) Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages Sacred space--India Hinduism--Prayers and devotions Dialogues Poems Prayers Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--19th century