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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959356203503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/837693444
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5935620

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Summary

Manuscript used for public or private recitation and prayer. It presents numerous mantras and is in praise of the one thousand names connected to the elephant-headed, Hindu deity, Gaṇeśa. Text is presented as a dialogue between the Hindu deities Śiva and Umā (Pārvatī).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 8v); alternate title Gakārādigaṇapatisahasranāmastotra from opening verses (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1933 jyeṣṭaśuddha 13 śukra (Monday, June 5, 1876) (f. 8v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and minor additions in margins; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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