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

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• bibid: 9958213763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809543649
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5821376

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Summary

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer, celebrating the Śiva liṅga named Vīreśvara and narrated by the legendary figure Viśvānara. The first eight verses (chapter 10.131-138 of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa) consist of a stotra sung by Viśvānara upon seeing a child he took to be a form of Śiva (Vīreśvara); the rest of the text deals with how he obtained a son of his own and the benefits that result (such as obtaining a son) from the performance/recitation of the stotra.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 6r); alternate title Viśveśvarastotra named on title page (f. 1r), though may be a mistranscription of the name Viśvānara.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated [1], 2-5, [6], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

Licenses

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