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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958038383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802809210
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803838

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Summary

Manuscript employed for private consultation and dedicated to the rites of bathing during the month of Māgha (January/February). May be part of a larger text called the Māghamāhātmya (Greatness of the month of Māgha). Rites and prayers are to be performed for the removal of sin and for attaining liberation, before sunrise, in a sacred river and are directed at various gods, especially Viṣṇu, such as in his demon-destroying form of Madhusūdana (f. 2v). Manuscript lacks an end.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Incipit: śrīgālava uvāca // yaḥ snāti mādhavaprītyai prātarmāghe bahirjalaiḥ // (f. 1v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Subjects topical

• Bathing customs--Religious aspects
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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