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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975805533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974381564
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7580553

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Summary

Seven sections of a larger Tantric treatise and manual on Śaiva ritual and worship containing seven different sections on different topics including Śiva pūja, Liṅga pūja, Pārthiva pūja (worship of an earthen liṅga), and worship of feminine forms of divinity such as Śakti and Dūrgā (in the form of Annapūrṇā).

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (Part 1, f. 3r).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 27 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-3, (Part 2) 1-3, (Part 3) 1-5, (Part 4) 1-5, (Part 5) 1-2, (Part 6) 1-3, (Part 7) 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some phrases written in red.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Tantrism
• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Worship (Hinduism)
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Durgā (Hindu deity)
• Shaktism
• Lingas (Śaivism)
• Annapūrṇā (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu goddesses

Genres

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

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