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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946235083503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/464224613
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4623508

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Summary

Chapters 2-4 of Book 8 of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, telling the story cycle of the elephant Gajendra. The Hindu deity Viṣṇu descends to earth to save the elephant whose had been caught by a crocodile and grants him salvation; manuscript also contains the first verse of the fifth chapter of the eighth book.

Notes

• Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons, introductions of speakers, and numbers. Mistakes scribbled over in black.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• Explicit: śrīśukauvāca // rājannuditametat te hareḥ karmāghanāśanaṃ // (f. 11r)
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Tales--India

Genres

• Animal stories
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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