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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959369863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/838608052
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5936986

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Summary

Manuscript is used for public or private recitation or prayer and worship (pūjā), venerating and praising a thousand names associated with the Hindu deity Śiva. Manuscript is part of a larger work known as the Śivarahasya. Presented as a discourse of the deity Skanda (known also as Kārttikeya), the son of Śiva.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 10v); title of larger work Śivarahasya from colophon (f. 10v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1967 vaiśākhaśubhe 10 (Thursday, May 19, 1910) (f. 10v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--20th century
• Manuscripts--India--20th century

Licenses

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• Text

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