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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958213753503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809543673
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5821375

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Summary

Manuscript for private or public recitation and prayer in praise and veneration of the Tulsi plant (tulasī), especially sacred to the followers of the Hindu god Viṣṇu and known for its medicinal properties (ocimum sanctum). The Tulsi plant appears in the form of a goddess, Tulasīdevī.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 12 lines per leaf.
   
• 29 leaves foliated 1-28, [29], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1761 (1839) (f. 29r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• European-made paper with watermarks of letters on the margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Ocimum sanctum
• Medicinal plants--India
• Plants--Religious aspects
• Vaishnavism
• Hindu goddesses
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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