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

Title

Authors

• Puṣpadanta, active 10th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9973909493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/968936667
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7390949

Publisher

Language

Summary

Small manuscript for private or public use, recitation, and prayer; a hymn in honor of the Hindu deity Śiva. Text identifies itself as a section from the Śivarahasya (f. 12v).

Notes

• Title from colophon.
   
• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

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