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

Title

Other related names

• Gaṇeśa, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958683063503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820723939
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5868306

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used as a kind of manual or handbook for consultation by a priest or household member (especially women) wanting to perform the rites, ceremonies, observances (vratas), and worship (pūjā) associated with the goddess Pārvatī during the festival of Maṅgalāgaurī (usually on Tuesdays) held during the month of Śrāvaṇa (July/August), especially auspicious for the god Śiva.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 9r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Gaṇeśa (f. 9r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Notes on paper and bindings or wrappings.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vratas
• Parvati (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Festivals--India
• Fasts and feasts--Hinduism
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Worship (Hinduism)

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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