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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