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

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• bibid: 9958038363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802831258
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803836

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Summary

Small manuscript for use in public or private recitation or prayer in praise and worship of the Hindu deity Śiva in his dancing (tāṇḍava) aspect. Text is traditionally thought to be written by the demon Rāvaṇa who is considered a devotee of Śiva. Manuscript derived from a text named the Mahāpurāṇa, which is most likely the Skandapurāṇa.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 5v); alternate title Śivatāṇḍavastavarāja from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated [1], 3-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; margins marked with two vertical purple lines.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Rāvaṇa (Hindu mythology)
• Dance--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Monsters--Religious aspects
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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