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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970162093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/952052625
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7016209

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Summary

Manuscript is used for public or private recitation or prayer and worship (pūjā) of the elephant-headed deity Gaṇeśa. Text praises, through mantras and verse, a thousand names of the god and is from a larger work known as the Rudrayāmala, a work of Tantric Śaivism.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 17r); alternate title Gaṇeśasahasranāma from title page (f. 1r); second alternate title Gaṇeśasahasranāmastotramantra from incipit (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 18 leaves foliated 1-18, 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.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism
• Tantrism
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

Licenses

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