Accession number
MS G.70
Object title
Bhagavadgita (MS G.70).
Display Date
second half of 18th cent.
Created
Kashmir, India, second half of 18th cent.
Binding
20th-century silk textile striped in red, yellow, and green, with floral designs, over cardboard.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
398 leaves (6 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 95 x 153 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Henry S. Glazier in Calcutta in 1933 and given to his brother William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York, in the same year; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in India, probably Kashmir, second half of the 18th century.
Decoration: 22 miniatures, with frames.
Decoration: 22 miniatures, with frames.
Contents
fols. 11r-126r: Bhagavadgītā -- fols. 128r-173r: Visṣṇu-sahasra-nāma and Bhisma-stava-rj̄a from the Mahābhārata -- fols. 176r-185r: Unidentifed text -- fols. 188r-211r: Gajendra-moksṣaạna from the Mahābhārata, Śāntiparva -- fols. 214r-227v: Kālāgnirudropaniṣat, perhaps from the Nandikésvara Purāṇa -- fols. 229r-239v: Vṣṇupañjarastotra, perhaps from the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa -- fols. 237r-247r: Mahimnastotra of Puṣpadantācārya -- fols. 250r-278r: Saundaryalaharīstotra of Śaṅkarācārya -- fols. 281r-288r: Unidentifed text from the Padma Purāṇa -- fols. 289r-292r: Jvālāmukhīstotra -- fols. 293r-316r: Unidentified text -- fols. 319r-339r: Śrī Gāyatrī Caubīsa -- fols. 340r-343v: Unidentifed text -- fols. 343r-345v: Śrī Nirañjanāṣṭaka -- fols. 356r-364r: Śivkavaca from the Skāṇda Purāṇa -- fols. 367r-371r: Śrī Pañcamukhīhanumānkavaca from the Sudarśanasaṁhitā -- fols. 372r-399v: Āditi-ḥrdayamantra from the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa.
Script
devanāgarī
Language
Sanskrit
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