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• bibid: 9957462093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793105060
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5746209

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Summary

First part is a short treatise on the performance of obeisances to and veneration of one's teacher (guru) and, using mantras, praising the names of legendary and historical teachers. Presented as a conversation between the Hindu deities Śiva and Pārvatī. Second part, the Mānasikasnānavidhi, is from the Vāmanapurāṇa and deals with methods of mental bathing performed as a meditation.

Notes

• Title for manuscript from colophon of first part (f. 1v); alternate title Gurupaddhati namaskāra from second line of text (f. 1r); section title Mānasikasnānavidhi from colophon for second part (f. 2r).
   
• Written in 15-16 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves.
   
• Colophon (Part 1): iti padmapurāṇe IśvarapārvatIsaṃvāde gurupaddhatinatividhānaṃ sa[māptaṃ] (f. 1v).
   
• Colophon (Part 2): iti śrīvāmanapurāṇoktamānasikasnānavidhiḥ saṃpūrṇam abhavat // cha // śraddhānīramanaḥ puṣpaṃ dhīdhūpaṃ jñānadīpakam // viṣayat yogan[ai]vedyaṃ sābhaktiḥ parameśvare // 1 // aham kārodhiyaṃ brute māsuptaprativodhaya // u[???]te ca parānaṃdenatanāhaṃ navaijagat // 2 // hakāraśivarūpeṇa sakāraḥ śaktirupyate // sohaṃ soṣṭadhāmūrtiṃ jīvojapati sarvadā // cha // cha // (f. 2r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line. Text written on European paper with a watermark of a crown over a fleur-de-lis.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Guru worship (Rite)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

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