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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957972733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/801653354
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5797273

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Summary

Manuscript used for private or public recitation, worship, and prayer for an observance (vrata) to honor the Hindu goddess Upāṅgalalitā also known as Lalitā (a form of the goddess Dūrgā who is popular in Maharashtra), and the rules related to it. Performed during the bright half of the month of Aśvin (September-October) and fasts are observed during this period.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 12v).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-2, 4-12, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu goddesses
• Vratas
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Fasting--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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