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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