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Title

Authors

• Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976288043503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/979991074
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7628804

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Language

Summary

Manuscript used for private or public recitation, prayer and worship (pūjā) in praise of the Hindu goddess Gaṅgā known also as the river Ganges especially in the city of Vāraṇasī, sacred to the Hindu religion. Frequent mention of Śiva. Title translates as the Wave of the Ganges. Work is incomplete. Includes part of an unidentified commentary. A second fragment of a text from the Anusmṛti dedicated to Viṣṇu is at the end (f. 15).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); title of second fragment from end title page (f. 15r).
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-6, 15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; blue European paper.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Gaṅgā (Hindu deity)
• Siva (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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