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[بهگوت پوران].
[Bhāgavatapurāṇa].
Uniform title
Puranas.
Bhāgavatapurāṇa.
Selections.
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Persian
Published/Created
[India?], [18--?]
Description
1 online resource (171 leaves) : paper
Details
Subject(s)
Puranas Bhāgavatapurāṇa
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Avatars (Religion)
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Hindu mythology
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Summary note
Selections from the Bhāgavatapurāṇa. Text begins with invocation to Krishna and Ganesha in Sanskrit transliterated into Persian. Some pages are missing.
Notes
Binding: Half covers; brown leather spine and corners with blue-green marbled paper sides over pasteboard. Spine is cracked and missing pieces, fabric spine lining is clearly visible. Plain paper pastedowns.
Decoration: Rubrications in red.
Foliation: Contemporary Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, upper left recto (1-118, 8 unnumbered leaves, 1-40, 3 unnumbered leaves). Modern continuous foliation added in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the modern foliation.
Layout: 15-19 long lines.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Likely copied in India in the 19th century.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq in at least two hands in black ink; pointed.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Location of originals
Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Language note
Persian.
Provenance
Acquired by the Penn Libraries, 1953.
Cite as
UPenn Ms. Codex 1912.
OCLC
1083522980
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