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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959998913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857174255
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5999891

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Summary

Manuscript used for private ceremony and recitation and contains a series of sacred mantras (words or phrase of power) dedicated to the philosophical principal of the universal self, here identified with the Hindu deity Śiva.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 8-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Text written on blue European paper with partial watermark having the word Wood and the partial word Kay, possibly part of a name.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism
• Hindu mantras
• Self (Philosophy)
• Ātman
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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