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

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• bibid: 9958038713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802809291
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803871

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Summary

Manuscript employed for consultation and recitation; praises the month of Mārgaśīrṣa (November-December) when the moon enters into the constellation of Mṛgaśiras. Presented as a conversation between the Hindu deities Kṛṣṇa and Brahmā. Praises the god Kālabhairava, a form of the god Śiva. Final folio is damaged and missing some text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 23r).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Colophon (in second hand): idaṃ pustakaṃ dravyadvārālikhapitaṃ / saṃvat 1847 durmatyabde māghakṛṣṇe bhubhaṃbhavat // śrīviśveśaṃ mādhavaṃ ḍhauṃḍhiṃ daṃdapaṇiṃ ca bhairavaṃ / vaṃde kāśīṃ guhāṃ gaṃgāṃ bhavānāṃ maṇikarṇikāṃ // śrīkālabhairavāya namaḥ // śrī // (f. 23r).
   
• Dated saṃvat 1847 (1790) (f. 23r); written in a second scribal hand.
   
• 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 black line. Secondary colophon written by second scribal hand (f. 23r).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Brahmā (Hindu deity)
• Bhairava (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu astronomy

Genres

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

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