Caṇḍīpāṭhaniyamaviddhi circa 1750-1899
- Description
- Instructions on how to properly read devotional texts dedicated to Caṇḍī, a popular regional goddess, important to Bengali culture. A decorative pattern is drawn on the inside of the outer bamboo cover.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1750
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Caṇḍi (Hindu deity)
- Rites and ceremonies -- Bangladesh
- Rites and ceremonies
- Geographic Subject
- Bangladesh
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 leaf) : illustrations
- Notes
- Written in 9 lines per folio.
- 1 leaf; there are five additional photos, four of the bamboo and wooden covers and on of the newspaper wrapping and its notes.
- Title from notes in margin (f. 1v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 6 x 35 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 a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 6233.
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3p55dx8r
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 7522
- 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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