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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9973917073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969358499
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7391707

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Summary

Manuscript is used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise of the one thousand names associated with the Hindu goddess Gāyatrī. Presented as a dialogue between Umā and Maheśvara (i.e., Pārvatī and Śiva), suggesting the text's source may be from a Śaiva Purāṇa or a Tantric source such as the Rudrayāmala.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 13r); alternate title Gāyatrisahasra from title page (f. 14v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-13, [i], lower right verso
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse divisions, some numbers, words, and phrases highlighted in red; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Gāyatrī (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Uma (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

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