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

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957944033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800385145
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794403

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Summary

Text offering eight prayers to the goddess of small pox (Śītalā) to be used in private and public rites for the purpose of curing the disease.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out.
   
• Formerly housed with Item 413, Item 414, Item 415, and Item 417.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu goddesses
• Smallpox--India
• Diseases--Religious aspects
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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