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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962129243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880675058
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6212924

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, prayer, and recitation, and is a treatment of Hindu mantras to be used in Tantric rituals; narrated by the god Śiva and dedicated to Heramba, a form of the deity Gaṇeśa, popular in the state of Maharashtra.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 27v).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 27 leaves foliated 1-27, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Tantrism
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

Licenses

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