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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958617213503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819507093
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861721

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Summary

Manuscript is for consultation by priest or householder performing rites of expiation and worship of various gods and their images (such as Gaṇeśa, Viṣṇu, or Śiva) to dispel inauspicious tidings, especially at death. Manuscript contains two sections on different kinds of expiation and averting calamity.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Paṅcakaśānti from internal colophon (f. 3r); second alternate title Tripādaśānti from colophon (f. 3v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Idols and images--India
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Omens--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Death--India--Religious aspects

Genres

• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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