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Title

Kāśīvihārapuṣkariṇī
काशीविहारपुष्करिणी

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2364
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9972445233503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/963979706
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7244523

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Work about pilgrimage centers in the sacred city of Vāraṇāsī (Kāśī) and benefits received there, such as ridding one of sins if you bathe in the Ganges River there. Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes

• Title from final title page (f. 73v).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 73 leaves foliated 1-73, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

1 item (73 leaves) : 12 x 27 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Bathing customs--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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