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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958213873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809265339
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5821387

Publisher

Language

Summary

Small manuscript used in private or public recitation and prayer. Text is in seventeen verses and is dedicated to the praise and celebration of the Hindu sacred river the Ganges (Gaṅgā), in the form of a goddess, along with mention of its geological aspects (such as the tributary Bhāgīrathī).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Formerly housed with Item 459 and Item 460.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rivers--India--Religious aspects
• Gaṅgā (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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