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• bibid: 9958225253503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809612362
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5822525

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Summary

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer in praise and worship (pūjā) of the River Ganges (Gaṅgā), personified as a goddess and important pilgrimage location in Hindu tradition. Recitation of the text is intended to remove ten kinds of sin. Text from chapter 27 of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Manuscript bears burn marks and obvious traces of use in worship (pūjā).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṅgā (Hindu deity)
• Forgiveness of sin--Hinduism
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers (documents)
• Hymns (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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