Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Other related names

• Māhādevabhaṭṭa, scribe
• Gaṇeśabhaṭṭa, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958375003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/812170042
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5837500

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript to be used for private or public consultation, recitation, and prayer; it was taken from a larger work, most likely a compendium of a variety of purāṇic and other sources and organized according to related themes such as festivals, observances (vratas), pūjās (rites of worshiping deities), and mythic origins of these rites. Text deals with the festival called Śiva's Night (śivarātri) and is dedicated to the worship of the Hindu deity Śiva and the rites, especially fasting, associated with the festival. Presented as a dialogue between the deities Śiva and Pārvatī.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 22 leaves foliated 1-22, lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Written on European paper with watermarks. The same scribe and paper were also used for Item 1447, Item 1454, Item 1455, Item 1456, and Item 1459, and may have originally been from the same manuscript as one or more of these items.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Māhādevabhaṭṭa and Gaṇeśabhaṭṭa based on the colophon of related manuscript Item 1459 (f. 4); one of whom may also have been the scribe of this manuscript.
   

Subjects topical

• Vratas
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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