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

Title

Other related names

• Gāḍagila, Janārdanapanta Bhatu, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958375043503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/812170977
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5837504

Publisher

Language

Summary

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer, dedicated to praising the goddess of smallpox Śītalā (the cooling one). Contains 16 verses of text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked or crossed out; paper treat with yellow pigment.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Janārdanapanta Bhatu Gāḍagila (f. 2v); possibly the same as Janārdana Koṇḍadeva Gāḍagila, former owner of more than 20 other manuscripts in Ms. Coll. 390, University of Pennsylvania.
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu goddesses
• Smallpox--Religious aspects
• Diseases--Religious aspects
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

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