Prayāgamāhātmya, 1806
प्रयागमाहात्म्य, १८०६
- Description
- Text celebrating the greatness of and presenting mythology related to the Hindu sacred pilgrimage center Prayāga (modern Allahabad). Presented as a discourse between Śiva's follower Nandi and the legendary sage Nārada.
- Creator
- Bhīkaṃbhaṭṭa, Mauni (son of Viśvanātha) (scribe)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1806
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Sacred space
- Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages
- Sacred space -- India
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit
- Nārada (Hindu mythology)
- Hindu mythology
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Allahabad (India)
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (20 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 24 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 20v).
- Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
- 20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti matsyapurāṇe prayāgamāhātmye naṃdināradasaṃvāde daśamodhyāyaḥ // 25 // śrī // rāma // saṃvat 1863 śake 1728 mitir mārgaśīrṣaśuda 14 saumyavāsara // likhitaṃ maunyupanāmakabhīkaṃbhaṭṭātmajaviśvanāthena likhitaṃ // śubhaṃ bahavatu // (f. 20v).
- Scibe is Mauni Bhīkaṃbhaṭṭa, son of Viśvanātha (f. 20v).
- Dated saṃvat 1863 and śaka 1728 (Wednesday, December 24, 1806 A.D.) (f. 20v).
- 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.
- Non-Latin script record.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 363
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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