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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958374933503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/812167809
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5837493

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Summary

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer, dedicated to praising the goddess of smallpox Śītalā (the cooling one). Contains 20 verses of text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 5r).
   
• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1861 (1805) (f. 5r)
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; margins marked with vertical double red lines.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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