Vaiṣṇavagranthīyapatrāvalī circa 1750-1899
- Description
- Work contains twelve different texts taken from a single family library and is a mixture of different genres: philosophical, ritual, devotional, poetic, astrological and more; contains, for example, a number of Vaiṣṇava devotional themes (some drawn from the Bhagavatapūrāṇa, others from devotional Bengali works); there is one particular work with selections from the poetry of Kālidasa as well as the Māhābhārata and contains mantras celebrating Hari (Viṣṇu) and Durgā, and names some local Brahmins: Gaurīcaraṇa Śarmmaṇa, Bhavānīśaṃkara Bhaṭṭācaryya, and Abhayanātha Bhaṭṭācaryya, possibly former owners of that section or family members. There is also a protective work (kavaca) dedicated to Durgā); as well as numerous Tantric works (such as parts of Āgamas, selection from the Mahānirvānatantra, and more), charts and small diagrams with letters and numbers from a personal astrological almanac (pañjika).
- Creator
- Gaurīcaraṇa Śarmmaṇa (associated name)
- Bhavānīśaṃkara Bhaṭṭācaryya (associated name)
- Abhayanātha Bhaṭṭācaryya (associated name)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- prayers (compositions)
- poems
- diagrams
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1750
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Vishnu (Hindu deity)
- Vaishnavism
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit
- Durgā (Hindu deity)
- Hindu philosophy
- Bengali language -- Devotional literature
- Hindu astrology
- Bengali language
- Devotional literature
- Extent
- 1 online resource (17 leaves) : illustrations
- Notes
- Written in 3-15 lines per folio.
- 17 leaves with uneven foliation from several different manuscripts taken from a single family library.
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 12 x 40 cm.
- Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
- In Sanskrit and Bengali (Bengali)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p31c1tw7f
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1636
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- Rights Note
- Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
- Resource Type
- Text
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