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Title

Other related names

• Bhuskuṭa, Ballāḷa, scribe
• Gāḍagīla, Janārdana Koṇḍadeva, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970479403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953736576
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7047940

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Language

Summary

Text praising one thousand names of the Hindu goddess Bhāvānī. Work is a small, pocket sized manuscript, to be used in private or public devotion and worship (pūjā). Presented as a dialogue between the gaṇa (follower of Śiva) and the deity Śiva (named Īśvara in the text, f. 31r). Part of a larger Śaiva work on Tantra, the Rudrayāmalatantra.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 31r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Ballāḷa Bhuskuṭa (f. 31r).
   
• Dated śaka 1674 (1752) (f. 31r).
   
• Unclear watermarks of a coat of arms.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Janārdana Koṇḍadeva Gāḍagīla (f. 31r), likely from the town of Gāḍagīla.
   

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit--Early works to 1800
• Bhavānī (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Siva (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Śaivism--Early works to 1800
• Tantrism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Prayers
• Dialogues
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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