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

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 178 Vināyakaśānti / विनायकशान्ति

Title

Vināyakaśānti
विनायकशान्ति

Other related names

Cipoṇkara, Mahādevabhaṭa, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 178
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9958644313503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820005242
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864431

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook for use by a priest or senior family member and outlines the rules and rites for dispelling or getting rid of various obstacles that impede one's spiritual and worldly development. Dedicated to the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa (called Vināyaka).

Notes

Title from back title page (f. 3v).
Written in 14-15 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso and recto.
Dated saṃvat 1839 (1782) (f. 3r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.
Scirbe is Mahādevabhaṭa Cipoṇkara (f. 3r) and is the same scribe as item 179, written in the same year.

Extent

1 item (3 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti vaināyakīśāntiḥ // śaṃ[vat] 1839 śrāvaṇaśuddha 8 bhṛguvāre tad dine mahādevabhaṭacipoṇkarena likhitaṃ / viśveśvarārpaṇam astu // (f. 3r).

Subjects topical

Hindu law
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
Rites and ceremonies--India
Atonement (Prayer)--Hinduism

Genres

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

Text

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URL

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URL

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Images

fol. 1r
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fol. 2v-3r
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fol. 3v
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