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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957836533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/798255485
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5783653

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Summary

Observances (vrata) related to food, bathing, and other rites, performed for the worship and veneration of the Hindu goddess Pārvatī as well as a deity in the form of the planet (graha) named Budha (Mercury). Performed on the eighth day of the month of Vaiśākha. Presented as a conversation between the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa and the legendary king Yudhiṣṭhira.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 10r).
   
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vratas
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Hindu goddesses
• Parvati (Hindu deity)
• Hindu astrology
• Bathing customs--India
• Food--India--Religious aspects
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Yudhiṣṭhira (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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