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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957836493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/798258251
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5783649

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Summary

Text is a description of the observance and rites (vrata) dedicated to the Hindu goddess Gaurī (a form of Pārvatī, the wife of Śiva), sitting on top of a white elephant (hasta or gaja). Rites are performed when the sun enters into the constellation of Hasta (identified partly with the constellation Corvus). Presented as a conversation between the deity Kṛṣṇa and the legendary figure Kunti.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Gajagaurīvrata from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaurī (Hindu deity)
• Parvati (Hindu deity)
• Vratas
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Corvus--India
• Elephants--Symbolic aspects
• Hindu astronomy
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Kuntī (Hindu mythology)

Genres

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

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