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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963242603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898494217
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6324260

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, consultation and recitation and is a mytho-poetic ritual manual presenting instruction for ritually putting ash on the body; presented in the form of a dialogue between the son of the Hindu deity Śiva, Sanatkumāra (known also as Skanda or Kārttikeya), and Kālāgnirudra, a form of Śiva.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers and metrical accents highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
   
• Machine made paper with a watermark bearing some kind of crest (f. 3).
   

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Subjects topical

• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu mythology
• Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Poems
• Dialogues
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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