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Title

Other related names

• Dāḍekara, Rāmacandra, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958277403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810266336
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5827740

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Summary

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and consultation in celebration of the fourth day of the bright half of the month of Bhādra (August/September), called Haritālika. This day is especially auspicious for the Hindu deities Śiva and Pārvatī and their worship (pūjā). Rites of fasting and the sacred thread (initiation) ceremony are mentioned among other rites and offerings.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 7v); alternate title Harītālikāpūjā from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1745 (1823) (f. 7v).
   
• Scribe is Rāmacandra Dāḍekara (f. 7v).
   
• 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

Subjects topical

• Puja (Hinduism)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu astronomy
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Initiation rites--Religious aspects
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

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