Durgāśatanāmastotra circa 1750-1899
- Description
- Manuscript consists of three devotional works for use in rituals; the first, Annapūrṇāstotra (f. 1r), is a prayer to the goddess Annapūrṇā, a form of the deity Durgā; the second work, the Durgākavaca (f. 1r), is a kind of protective amulet in text form, recited during the performance of protective rites related to the goddess Durgā; the final text Durgāśatanāmastotra (f. 1v) is a devotional text dedicated to the 1,000 names of the Hindu goddess Durgā.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- Poems
- Prayers
- Facsimiles
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1750
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Durgā (Hindu deity)
- Annapūrṇā (Hindu deity)
- Hindu goddesses
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit
- Amulets (Hinduism)
- Rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh
- Rites and ceremonies
- Geographic Subject
- Bangladesh
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 leaf) : illustrations
- Notes
- Written in 10-11 lines per folio.
- 1 leaf.
- Title from colophon (f. 1v); title of first text Annapūrṇāstotra from incipit (f. 1r, line 6); title of second text Durgākavaca from internal colophon (f. 1r, final line in right margin).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper may once have been treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 37 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.
- Notes and numbers written in modern Bengali hand: Kra: 6409; bha: 496.
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3zp3wf66
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1650
- Provenance
- Manuscript was collected from a private family library on April 12th, 1944.
- 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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