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

Title

Other related names

• Mādhava ( son of Kāṃhāṃnajīt), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958374913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/812169027
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5837491

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Language

Summary

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer, dedicated to praising the goddess of smallpox Śītalā (the cooling one) in order to ward of disease. Contains 12 verses of text. Back of manuscript used for scribal practice, especially the akṣaras (syllables) "da" and "dha."

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 1r).
   
• Scribe is Mādhava the son of Kāṃhāṃnajīt.
   
• Written in 12 lines per leaf.
   
• 1 leaf.
   
• Mistakes blacked or crossed out; double black vertical lines mark margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   
• Scribe is Hānajīt Sutamādhava Śana.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu goddesses
• Smallpox--Religious aspects
• Diseases--Religious aspects
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century

Licenses

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