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

Title

Authors

• Vālmīki

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9973909093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/968936375
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7390909

Publisher

Language

Summary

Small manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise of the River Ganges, personified as a goddess (Gaṅgā).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2r).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1789 (1867) based on watermark.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; written on blue European paper.
   
• Watermark of part of a coat of arms and the date 1864 A.D.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṅgā (Hindu deity)
• Hindu goddesses
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Devotional literature
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit

Genres

• Hymns (documents)
• Prayers (documents)
• Poems
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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