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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957283733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/791454862
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5728373

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Summary

Text eulogizing a hundred different names of the Hindu deity Śiva. Taken from the last section (uttarabhāga) of the Padmapurāṇa called the Bilvakeśvaramāhātmya, generally praising the greatness of Bilvakeśvara, a form of Śiva. Presented as a discussion between the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa and the legendary figure Mārkaṃḍeya.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1758 (1836) (f. 16v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Decorative border on cover (f. 1r).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Text was written in the pilgrimage center of Kāśī (Varāṇasī) at the steps (ghat) called Maṇikarṇikā on the river Ganges (f. 16v).
   

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Mārkaṇḍeya (Hindu mythology)

Genres

• Prayers
• Hymns
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Floral border, f. 1r