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

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 179 Gaṇapatipratiṣṭhāpanapaddhati / गणपतिप्रतिष्ठापनपद्धति

Title

Gaṇapatipratiṣṭhāpanapaddhati
गणपतिप्रतिष्ठापनपद्धति

Authors

Baudhāyana

Other related names

Cipoṇkara, Mahādevabhaṭa, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 179
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9958644463503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820003635

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook for use by a priest, outlining the rules and laws governing the installation of religious images, inviting the deity (the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa) to reside therein, bathing the image, and other rites; the image to be subsequently worshiped by Hindu adherents.

Notes

Title from colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Gaṇapatipratiṣṭhā from incipit.
Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1839 (1782) (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Scribe is Mahādevabhaṭa Cipoṇkara (f. 2v), also named in item 178, which was written in the same year.
Non-Latin script record.

Extent

1 item (2 leaves) : 12 x 23 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti baudhāyanoktagaṇapatipratiṣṭhāpanapaddhatiḥ // saṃvat 1839 bhādrapadavadya 8 bhṛgunāre mahādevabhatacipoṇkarena likhitaṃ // śrīkālabhairavāya namaḥ // (f. 2v).

Subjects topical

Idols and images--India--Hinduism
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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URL

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fol. 2v
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