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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957945033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800665896
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794503

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Summary

Small manuscript employed in private or public recitation and prayer to ward off sudden or accidental death or illness; it functions as kind of an amulet. Possibly taken from the Mārkaṇḍeya purāṇa.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 1 leaf.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Formerly housed with 2273.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Amulets (Hinduism)
• Diseases--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Death--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

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