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

Title

Other related names

• Lohanī, Viṣṇudatta, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958609013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819406322
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860901

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of instruction manual to be used by a priest or religious practitioner engaged in the worship (pūjā) of earthen (pārthiva) liṅgas, emblems of the Hindu god Śiva in order to remove sins and receive other worldly benefits. Text is from a larger work called the Pārthivacintāmaṇi.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 14r).
   
• Written in 13-18 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Viṣṇudatta Lohanī (f. 14r).
   
• Dated saṃvat 1901 (1847) (f. 14r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Puja (Hinduism)
• Lingas (Śaivism)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Idols and images--India--Worship
• Forgiveness of sin--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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