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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958423323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/813298537
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5842332

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Summary

Manuscript serves as a guide for performance and recitation of a worship (pūjā) of five deities (Viṣṇu, Devi, Śiva, Gaṇeśa, and Sūrya) and focuses particularly on Viṣṇu as the central deity and Lakṣmī as the form of the goddess (devi). Text ends with a blessing to the god Cidambaram, the central deity (a form of Śiva) in a town of the same name from Tamil Nadu.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 19r); alternate title Viṣṇupañcāyatanapūjāviddhi supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 20 leaves foliated 1-19, [20], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1744 (1822) (f. 19v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• From Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu.
   

Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Lakshmi (Hindu deity)
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

Licenses

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