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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975777483503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974380510
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7577748

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Summary

Short (laghu) preparatory Tantric ritual manual with associated rules and regulations for ritually touching parts of the body while reciting mantras to Rudra, a Vedic precedent for the Hindu deity Śiva. Lacks beginning. Manuscript was folded in half to make more portable for personal use.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 2-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; Vedic accents highlighted in red throughout for aiding recitation.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Rudra (Hindu deity)
• Tantrism
• Śaivism
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts

Genres

• Prayers (documents)
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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