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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959998833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857176845
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5999883

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Summary

Manuscript used for private recitation and rituals involving the worship of Hindu deities, especially Lakṣmī and Nārasiṃha, the man-lion avatar of the deity Viṣṇu. The work is especially focused on hand gestures (mudrās) and other rites such as bathing, and the recitation of mantras, associated with Tantric worship, serving as a kind of manual or guidebook.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 6r).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, phrases, and numbers highlighted in red; border colored with yellow powder.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Gesture--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Mudrās (Hinduism)
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Lakshmi (Hindu deity)
• Narasiṃha (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Tantrism

Genres

• Prayers
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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