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Title

Other related names

• Dāḍekara, Kṛṣṇa, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957792833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796288665
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5779283

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Language

Summary

First part of manuscript is a text containing prayers and mantras recited in honor and worship (pūjā) of various Hindu deities such as the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa and Kṛṣṇa, in order to remove or liberate families and households from debt (ṛṇa). Second part of manuscript is a text containing prayers and mantras recited in honor of various Hindu goddess such as Bhāratī, Sarasvātī, Parvātī, and Śāradā, for increasing intelligence or wisdom (prajñā); text gives details of objects held by the goddesses such as a book, ceremonial grasses, a noose, and other things.

Notes

• Scribe is Kṛṣṇa Dāḍekara (f. 1v).
   
• Title from title incipit (f. 1r); alternate title of first part Ṛṇaharaṣaḍakṣaracintāmaṇistotra from colophon (f. 1r); second alternate title of first part Ṛṇamokṣastotra from native wrapping; title of second part Prajñāvardhanastotra from colophon (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 1 leaves foliated.
   
• 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Spiritual intelligence
• Wisdom--Religious aspects
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Hindu goddesses
• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Sarasvatī (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

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