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Title

Other related names

• Lakṣmīdatta, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957943963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800388721
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794396

Publisher

Language

Summary

Text to be used in private or public meditation and prayer in honor and worship of the Hindu Tantric goddess Vagalā, giving one thousand names of the goddess in the form of mantras. Text is incomplete with first folio missing.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 16v).
   
• Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 2-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Lakṣmīdatta (f. 16v).
   
• Dated saṃvat 1906 (1849) (f. 16v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Tantrism
• Hindu goddesses
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

Licenses

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