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• bibid: 9958213733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809543729
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5821373

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Summary

Small manuscript for personal use in recitation. The first part includes mantras for use during the performance of rites dedicated to the Hindu goddess (such as Jagaddhātrī a form of Dūrgā), the knowledge of which is said to remove confusion. Includes the mantras "glāṃ bījaṃ glīṃ śaktiḥ glūṃ kīlakaṃ." The second part of the manuscript includes a set of mantras employed in celebration of the goddess Sārasvatī.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 1 lines per leaf.
   
• 1 leaf foliated 1, upper left verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verses indicated with red daṇḍas.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sarasvatī (Hindu deity)
• Durgā (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu goddesses
• Recitations--Religious aspects

Genres

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

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