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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957972763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/801654806
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5797276

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Language

Summary

Manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise and worship of a spiritual teacher or guru. Claims to be from the Skandapurāṇa and is presented as a discourse between the goddess Umā (a form of Pārvatī) and Maheśavara (a form of Śiva).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line. Front and back folios are reinforced with blue paper on the outer sides (f. 1r and f. 23v).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Guru worship (Rite)--Hinduism
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Parvati (Hindu deity)
• Dialogues

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r