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

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964092413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910182738
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6409241

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Summary

Guide including rules and laws of dharma associated with the daily ritual routine of reciting Vedic mantras and verses set in the gāyatrī meter but here directed to non-Vedic deities such as the elephant-head Gaṇeśa and others. Gāyatrī is also personified as a Hindu goddess.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu law
• Dharma
• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Gāyatrī (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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