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

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• bibid: 9958774513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823375912

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Summary

Diminutive manuscript for personal prayer and recitation, possibly carried on the person as a kind of portable prayer. Dedicated to the Hindu goddess Gaurī a form of the goddess Pārvatī, consort of the deity Śiva, also venerated in the text.

Notes

• Formerly housed with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 232 and may be from the same original owner named Harimiśra.
   
• Title from incipit (f.1r).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated [1-2], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Subjects topical

• Gaurī (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras
• Hindu goddesses

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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