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

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• bibid: 9958213783503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809542612
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5821378

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Summary

Manuscript used for private or public recitation, worship, and prayer for an observance (vrata) to honor the Hindu goddess Upāṅgalalitā, also known as Lalitā (a form of the goddess Dūrgā, who is popular in Maharashtra), and the rules related to it. Performed during the bright half of the month of Aśvin (September-October); fasts are observed during this period.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 14v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Colophon (internal): iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe skaṃdaṛṣisaṃvāde upāṃgalalitāvratakathā saṃpūrṇaṃ śrīdevyārpaṇam astu (f. 14v).
   
• 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.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu goddesses
• Durgā (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Vratas
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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