Collection of pāñcālī circa 1750-1899
- Description
- There are three texts in the genre of pāñcālī: Maṅgalacaṇḍīpāñcālī; Satyanārāyaṇapāñcālī, Sanira\pāñcāli These texts are used to promote the veneration and devotion to a deity or, in the case of regional Islam, a saint or holy man. Typically such texts are also employed for personal benefits and avoiding dangers through the recitation of the text. This group of texts each focuses on a Hindu deity: the goddess Caṇḍī the god Nārāyaṇa, and the planet Śani (Saturn).
- Creator
- Rāma Kṛṣṇa
- Pūrṇa Jāmini (scribe)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- prayers (compositions)
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1750
- Language
- Bengali
- Subject
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit
- Narayana (Hindu deity)
- Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity)
- Caṇḍi (Hindu deity)
- Śani (Hindu deity)
- Rites and ceremonies -- India
- Rites and ceremonies
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Extent
- 1 online resource (44 leaves) : illustrations
- Notes
- Written in 20-21 lines per folio.
- 44 leaves foliated [i-ii, 1r-15r, i-ii, 15v-29v, i-ii, 30r-38r]; there are seven additional photos: six photos of notes (two images before each text) and one photo of the cotton wrapper.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Dated 9 Kārtika, [12]74 Sana (24 October, 1867) (f. 15r); Bengali date of 1274 is also written in a coded form (f. 30r) .
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 14 x 22 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.
- Scribe is Pūrṇa Jāmini (f. 30r).
- Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: 1322.
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 7191
- 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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