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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954460143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779958563
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5446014

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Summary

Praise (māhātmya) of the Yamunā River in North India, promoting pilgrimage there; praise of Hindu deities, especially Viṣṇu; considered a section of the larger Marīcisarga a section of the Padmapurāṇa; presented from the perspective of the goddess Śakti.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 12r), alternate title Marīcisarga from colophon (f. 12r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins with different ink, by a different hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Śakti (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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