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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957025413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/786349103
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5702541

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Summary

Elephant-headed Hindu deity Gaṇeśa gives instructions on how to perform this vow dedicated to honoring him. Text presented as a discourse between Gaṇeśa and his mother, the goddess Pārvatī. The performance is to begin on the 4th day in the dark half of the month of Śravaṇa (July-August) and includes fasting, mantras for performing the 16 rites of homage, among other rites. Identifies itself as a part of the Smṛtikaustubha section of the Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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