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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957945053503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800667846
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794505

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Summary

Small manuscript for personal recitation (employing mantras), prayer, reflection, and worship (pūjā), celebrating the thousand names of the popular Hindu goddess Lalitā, a form of the deity Dūrgā.

Notes

• Title colophon (f. 33v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 33 leaves foliated 1-32, [33], 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. Floral and cross hatching design on front cover in red and black ink (f. 1r).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu goddesses
• Durgā (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1995: Lalitāsahasranāmāvali are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r