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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964129323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910640721
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6412932

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Summary

Instructions with associated rules and laws (dharma) for installing and worshiping Pārthiva (earthen) liṅgas (emblems of the Hindu deity Śiva) and finishing with a kind of poetic praise (stotra) of Śiva, containing various mantras (words and phrases of power) dedicated to the deity.

Notes

• Title from final title page (f. 4v); alternate title Pārthivapūjā from incipit (f. 1r); title of second work Śivastotra from final colophon (f. 4r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some in a second scribal hand.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Lingas (Śaivism)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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