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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944900133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320537708
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4490013

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Summary

Selection of 74 verses from the Śāntiparvan of the Mahābhārata on the importance of remembering the Hindu deity Viṣṇu at death.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 14v); alternate title Viṣṇudharmottara also from colophon (f. 14v).
   
• Invocation, colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas in red; a few marginal corrections and many very lengthy additions in margins, possibly a commentary; Telugu script in margin (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Epic literature, Sanskrit
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Worship (Hinduism)
• Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies

Genres

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

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