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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:32, 14 July 2023: 1,002 × 1,416, 4 pages (963 KB): TrangaBellam: Uploaded a work by Anon. from "The Manuscript of the Maharashtra Purana" in The Mahārāshṭa Purāṇa: An Eighteenth-Century Bengali Historical Text, translated by Edward C. Dimock and Pratul Chandra Gupta, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1965, pp. XI-XIV. with ...
Manuscript of the Maharashtra Purana. Kedarnath Majumdar came across the palm-leaf manuscript — in eleven folios — while collecting biographies of regional poets in Mymensingh c. 1902. [1] It remains the only extant manuscript and is currently conserved at the Manuscript Library of the Bengali Department of the University of Calcutta. [2] [3]
Three Hundred Rāmāyaṇas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation" is an essay written by Indian writer A. K. Ramanujan for a Conference on Comparison of Civilizations at the University of Pittsburgh, February 1987. The essay was a required reading on Delhi University's syllabus for history undergraduates from 2006–7 onward. On ...
Ganesh Chaturthi, a popular festival in the state. Maharashtra is the third largest state of India in terms of land area and second largest in terms of population in India. . It has a long history of Marathi saints of Varakari religious movement, such as Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Chokhamela, Eknath and Tukaram which forms the one of bases of the culture of Maharashtra or Marathi culture.
The Krittivas Ramayan appears to be a translation into Bengali from one or another recension of the Sanskrit text known as Valmiki's Ramayana. [5] If the popular association of the Krittivas Ramayan with Krittibas Ojha and the available biographical information about him is correct, the Krittibas Ramayan was composed in the fifteenth century CE.
The Dnyaneshwari (Marathi: ज्ञानेश्वरी) (IAST: Jñānēśvarī), also referred to as Jnanesvari, Jnaneshwari or Bhavartha Deepika, is a ...
Linguists and archeologists believe it is likely that Maharashtra was inhabited by Dravidian speakers during the middle Rigvedic period, [7] as suggested by Dravidian names of places in Maharashtra. [8] [9] [10] Maharashtra region later became part of the Maurya Empire, with edicts of emperor Ashoka having been found in the region. Buddhism ...
Mukteshwar (1574-1645), the grandson of Eknath, too, wrote several works in Marathi including a translation of the epic Mahabharata. Krista Purana, written by the Goa-based Christian missionary Thomas Stephens, was first published in 1616. It is written in a mix of Marathi and Konkani languages, and the first copy was printed in the Roman ...