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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964155523503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910914790
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6415552

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Summary

Collection of mantras (words or phrases of power) and verses and instructions for their use for recitation during the performance of the Saṃdhyā rites by the top three castes. Opens with the 24 Keśava names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu. Lacks an ending.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in black and red in margins; metrical accents in red through part of manuscript.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

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