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Title

Other related names

• Bhāskara Dāḍekara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968250793503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/933387256
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6825079

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Language

Summary

Ritual (pūjā) performed for personal and worldly benefit; dedicated to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu in the form of Ananta; propitiates and praises other deities while helping to remove sins that have occurred as well as prescribing observances (vratas) to achieve these ends. Text attributed to the Padmapurāṇa (f. 13r).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti padmapurāṇoktaṃ anaṃtapūjāvidhānaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 13r).
   
• Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 20r).
   
• Dated śaka 1740 (1838) (f. 13r).
   
• 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.
   
• Unidentified watermarks, possibly a coat of arms.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Puja (Hinduism)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Vratas
• Sin--Hinduism
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

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