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Title

Other related names

• Sahastrabudhi, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958277383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810266389
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5827738

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Language

Summary

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayers dedicated to the worship (pūjā) of the Hindu goddess of smallpox and diseases Śītalā, who is described as riding atop a donkey. Text relates a mythic encounter between the goddess and the deity Śiva and his praise (stotra) of her. Narrated by the deity Skanda.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left verso.
   
• Dated vaiśākhaśukla 15 śaka 1779 and saṃvat 1914 (Saturday, 9 May 1857) (f. 3v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sahastrabudhi.
   

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Diseases--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu goddesses
• Smallpox--Religious aspects
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

Licenses

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