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• bibid: 9958277463503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810268787
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5827746

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Summary

Manuscript for private or public recitation and prayer employed for improving concentration and memory. First part is dedicated to venerating the Hindu goddess Sarasvati, a personification of the heavenly river of the same name, through the employment of mantras. Part two gives a short version of the other part, repeating some of the former text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. May have been written in two hands; a couple of lines of Grantha sript are written on the final folio (f. 3v).
   
• Formerly housed with Ms. Coll. 390: Items 453, 455, 456, and 457.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sarasvatī (Hindu deity)
• Hindu goddesses
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

Licenses

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