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Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976287993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/979990850

Publisher

Language

Summary

Poem and devotional work devoted to Gaṅgā (embodiment of the Ganges river) and related mythology. Manuscript was folded in half for ease of portability, suggesting its use in personal rites and practice.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 1v); alternate title Gaṅgāstotra from abbreviation in margin (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; blue European paper.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṅgā (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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