University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2176

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS7322

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2176

Title:

Pitṛstava / पितृस्तव

Hindu text

Date:

circa 1856.

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 11 x 21 cm

Note:

Title from colophon (f. 10r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti mārkaṃḍeyapurāṇe raucyamanvaṃtare pitṛstavaṃ samāptaṃ // śake 1778 // prabhavanāmasaṃvatsare jyeṣṭhakṛṣṇa 8 samāptaṃ (f. 10r).
Dated śake 1778 prabhavanāmasaṃvatsare jyeṣṭhakṛṣṇa 8 (Thursday, June 26, 1856) (f. 10r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. First (f. 1) and last (f. 10) are double folia, but treated as single folium by the scribe.
Blue, European stock of paper with a variety of watermarks including a crest with the goddess Victory bearing a crown, spear, and shield; another watermark bearing the words "Moinier's Fine 1853."
Non-Latin script record.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

prayers (literary genre)

hymns

Hindu cosmology

Puja (Hinduism)

Hindu mythology

Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Ancestor worship--Hinduism

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9957944113503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p39d4f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania