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• bibid: 9970821493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/957181154
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7082149

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Summary

Hymns from the Ṛgveda dedicated to the deity and drug Soma and employed in an ancillary work (vedāṅga). The Pavamāna, an agent of purification, is a collection of hymns often recited on fasting days associated with the Ekādaśī (eleventh day of a fortnight).

Notes

• Title from colophon (Part 3, f. 17v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 38 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-13, (Part 2) 1-8, (Part 3) 1-17, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated after 1821 based on a watermark.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; Vedic metrical accents in red throughout for recitation; vertical margins marked with double red line. Different sections may have been completed by different scribes.
   
• Watermarks with the date of 1821, the name J. Whatman, and a partial coat of arms.
   
• A pressed snake skin is in the manuscript (Part 2, f. 7-8), possibly as a place holder or book mark.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Soma (Hindu deity)
• Vedāṅgas
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit

Genres

• Hymns (documents)
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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