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Title

Authors

• Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, active 16th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958976953503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/826712352
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5897695

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a compendium and guide used for consultation by those wanting to learn the benefits (such as liberation at death) of visiting the city of Gayā, a major pilgrimage center in India. Part of a larger work, the Tristhalīsetu, translated as "Bridge to the three holy cities."

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 39v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 39 leaves foliated 1-39, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1914 (1857) on the basis of Ms. Coll. 390, Item 280 (f. 47v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
   
• Belonged to a single manuscript along with Ms. Coll. 390 Item 279, Item 280, and Item 281.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Sacred space--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 278: Gayāprakaraṇa are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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