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• bibid: 9958277373503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810269151
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5827737

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Summary

Manuscript for private or public use in prayer, recitation, reflection, and practice of rites. The first part (f. 1) is a short commentary (bhāṣya) on the Tryastriṃśatsūtra, a text dealing with Hindu cosmology. The second part of the manuscript opens with a description of the veneration and worship of different forms of the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa. The text then gives a mythic account of the sun's gift of the gold-producing Syamantaka jewel to the legendary figure Satrājita and the subsequent adventures involving the legendary king Kṛṣṇa and the king of bears, Jāmbavāna. Presented as a discourse between kings Yudhiṣṭhira and Kṛṣṇa.

Notes

• Title from colophon of part two (f. 6r); title of part one Trayastriṃśatsūtrabhāṣya from internal colophon (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1, 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1941 (1883) (f. 6r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Jewelry--India
• Gems--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology)
• Hindu cosmology
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

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

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