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Title

Other related names

• Bhāskara Daḍekara, scribe

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957024713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/786344551
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5702471

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Summary

Text on rites and ceremonies to perform, focusing on fasting vows, visiting pilgrimage sites, reciting mantras to various Hindu deities, among other rites. Performed during the fifth month of the Hindu calender Śrāvaṇa (July-August) and is especially auspicious for worshiping the deity Śiva. Presented as a discourse between the Hindu goddesses Pārvatī and Indrāṇī.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 7v); alternate title Pīṭhorāvratapūjākathā from end title page (f. 8v).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1723 (1801) (f. 8r).
   
• 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.
   
• Scribe is Bhāskara Daḍekara (f. 8r), possibly related to Kṛṣṇabhaṭṭa Dāḍekara, the scribe named in Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1440.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu goddesses
• Fasting--India
• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Vratas
• Hindu mantras
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Treatises
• Prayers
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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