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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957944663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800401168
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794466

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Summary

Small manuscript used in private or public recitation and prayer focusing on the praise and worship of the Hindu deity Śiva, presenting one thousand of the god's names, such as Maheśvara, Vāmadeva, Skandaguru, Trilocana, among others. Employs some well-known mantras, such as "om̐ namaḥ śivāya."

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 13v).
   
• Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
   
• leaves foliated [1], 2-13, lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; two sets of horizontal red lines across top or bottom across each folio.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Hindu mantras

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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