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

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• bibid: 9970783913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956706121
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7078391

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Summary

Collection of Vedic and other mantras (words or phrases of power) employed in rites and for recitation to praise and honor the nine planets (navagraha) in the Hindu astrological system and to enlist their power to remove challenges and obstacles from life. Manuscript is unfinished. Ends with the beginning of a work for lauding the moon: athacaṃdrajapaḥ / (f. 3v).

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 2r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated [i], 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astronomy

Genres

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

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