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

Title

Other related names

• Maktuṇa, Cintāmaṇa, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9951882003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760108014
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5188200

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Language

Summary

Collection of protective rites, mantras, and praises associated with the name Gaṇapati; purported to be from the Atharvaveda (f. 2r) though likely written in the late medieval period; dedicated to the deity Gaṇeśa, though manuscript identifies itself as an Upaniṣad (f. 2r).

Notes

• Title from rubric (f. 1r) and colophon (f. 2r), written without sandhi in both cases (gaṇapati atharvaśīraṣaṃ), and corrected by cataloger.
   
• Written in 15 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Cintāmaṇa with the family name (upanāma) of Maktuṇa (f. 2r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

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