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Title

Authors

• Daivajña, Sūryaśrī

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959592003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/846856388
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5959200

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Language

Summary

Manuscript used for the contemplation and study as well as for recitation practice and is a poetic praise of the Hindu gods Rāma and Kṛṣṇa in half stanzas dedicated to each god throughout. These two gods are considered avatāras of the god Viṣṇu. Manuscript contains a commentary, likely by the author of the principal work, running parallel above and below the main text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 29r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and some phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Avatars (Religion)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

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