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

Title

Other related names

• Sītārāma Sapura, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954460183503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779962253
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5446018

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Language

Summary

Text praising the importance of the month of Kārtika (October/November) and the various rites (vratas) and mantras that need to be performed; this month is especially auspicious for the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa and text contains mythology related to this figure.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 10-17 lines per leaf.
   
• 37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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.
   
• Scribe is Sītārāma Sapura (f. 37r).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Hindu astrology
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu mantras
• Vratas
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

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