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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957944443503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800401104
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794444

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Summary

Small manuscript likely carried as a kind of pocket booklet for use in private meditation and prayer. Dedicated to praising the importance of the well-known Hindu work, the Bhagavadgītā, as a sacred work and expounding on the merits of its recitation, comparing it to visiting various sacred pilgrimage sites (tīrtha). Text opens with a praise to the god Pāṇḍuraṅga, a child form of the deity Kṛṣṇa, popular especially in Maharashtra; presented as a dialogue between the wild boar form of Viṣṇu, called Varāha, and the goddess earth, Pṛthivī.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; border margins marked with double red line.
   
• Threaded on left side like a booklet.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Varāha (Hindu deity)
• Pāṇḍuraṅga (Hindu deity)
• Hindu goddesses
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Songs, Sanskrit
• Recitations--Religious aspects
• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages

Genres

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

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