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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957972713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/801653376
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5797271

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Summary

Manuscript for use in worship (pūjā) of images of Viṣṇu in the form of Ananta, prescribing the bathing of the image along with other ritual actions. Text also contains a long series of mantras employed for honoring and praising the deity in his many different forms, especially his avatāras such as Narasiṃha, Vāmana, Kṛṣṇa, and others. The end title page (f. 15v) identifies the text as a vrata (observance); this text is likely meant to serve as worship section of that broader set of rites and rituals.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 15r); alternate title Anantavrata from end title page (f. 15v).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins;vertical margins marked with double red line on some folios (f. 12-15).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Puja (Hinduism)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Idols and images--Worship
• Idols and images--India
• Vaishnava temples
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Vratas
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

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