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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954145293503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773695487
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5414529

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Summary

Selections from four different Purāṇic texts dealing with mythic themes such as the manifestation (prādurbhāva) of Bhairava, a terrible form of the Hindu deity Śiva; omens associated with death (Kāla) and how to avoid them; the importance of the city of Kāśī (Vāraṇāsī); rites for a yogin to perform to obtain knowledge, etc.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Omens
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

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