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

Title

Authors

• Vyāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958277473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810266313
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5827747

Publisher

Language

Summary

Tiny manuscript, a kind of pocket book, for personal use, recitation, and prayer dedicated to the worship and praise of Hindu deity Gaṇeśa, the elephant-headed lord of obstacles. Praises the deity in eight verses (āṣṭika), although there are missing parts of verses four through six. Text is possibly derived from the Padmapurāṇa, Uttarakhaṇḍa.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Gaṇeśāṣṭaka supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 4 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; Some text added in a second hand (f. 1r and f. 3r).
   
• Formerly housed with Ms. Coll. 390: Items 453, 454, 456, and 457.
   
• Folios turn like a Western book (right to left), and text is aligned to the top on both recto and verso; folios are treated with yellow coloring.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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