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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957943903503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800362213
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794390

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Summary

Manuscript represents chapter 25 of a text celebrating the greatness of the month of Māgha (January-February), to be used in public or private recitation and prayer for the purpose of performing rites and ceremonies such as removing sin (including brahmahatyā -- the murder of a Brahman) and those who give worldly benefits to the devotee.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 6r).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mythology
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Sins--Religious aspects
• Murder--India--Religious aspects

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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