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Title

Gaṅgāsahasranāman
गङ्गासहस्रनामन्

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2206
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954145673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773695827
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5414567

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Text listing 1,000 names of the river Ganges (Gaṅgā). Presented as a discourse of the legendary sage Agastya.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 47v).
   
• Written in 5-6 lines per leaf.
   
• 46 leaves foliated 1-42, 44-46, [47], 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (46 leaves) : 9 x 15 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Gaṅgā (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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