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

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Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957783923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796041971
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5778392

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Summary

Rite and observance (vrata) of ablution and prayer for removing sins (pāpa) for both men and women; dedicated to the praise and worship (pūjā) of a group of primordial sages (ṛṣi) as well as to dharma. Performed on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Bhādrapada (August-September). Presented as a dialogue between the legendary king Yudhiṣṭhira and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 13v-14r); alternate title Ṛṣipañcamīkathā from title page (f. 1r); second alternate title Ṛṣipañcamīpūjā supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-14, lower left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Diagram of a Persian style carpet on the final folio (14r).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rishis
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Dharma

Genres

• Drawings (visual works)
• Prayers
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 13v-14r — illustration f. 14r