Lambodarāṣṭaka 1896
- Description
- Devotional text dedicated to the elephant-headed Hindu deity Gaṇeśa going by the name of Lambodara (the potbellied one); unknown commentary running above and below the root text.
- Creator
- Kṛṣṇacaraṇa Śarmmaṇa (scribe)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- commentaries
- prayers (compositions)
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1896
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit
- Extent
- 1 online resource (4 leaves) : illustrations
- Notes
- Written in 2-6 lines per folio.
- 4 leaves foliated [1-2], [4-5], one folio in the middle (f. 3) is missing from the original manuscript as determined by the order of verses; there is one photo of the newspaper wrapping.
- Title from colophon (f. 5r); alternate title Lambodarajananīstotra derived from notes on manuscript wrapper.
- Dated Sana 1303, 18 Vaiśākha (Friday, May 1st, 1896) (f. 5r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 34 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 Kṛṣṇacaraṇa Śarmmaṇa (f. 5r).
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gh9bq8b
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1163
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by Rajanīkānta Bhaṭṭācārya who lived in Hājipura, Bangladesh.
- Rajanīkānta Bhaṭṭācārya, former owner.
- 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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