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Title

Other related names

• Mathurānāthadeva, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957792743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796365853
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5779274

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Summary

First part of the manuscript is a short text related to the worship of Lilitā an abbreviated form of the name Upāṅgalalitā, a Hindu goddess popular especially in Maharashtra and considered a form of the goddess Durgā. Second and main part of the manuscript is dedicated to the performance of observances and rites (vrata) such as bathing or sipping water, related to the worship (pūjā) of Upāṅgalalitā, worshiped on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Aśvayuja (September-October). Presented as a conversation between the legendary bard or sūta and the primordial sages (ṛṣis).

Notes

• Title of main work from second colophon (f. 11v); title of short first work Lilitāpūjanavidhi from colophon (f. 4r).
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Mathurānāthadeva (f. 11v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu goddesses
• Durgā (Hindu deity)
• Bards and bardism in literature
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Vratas
• Rishis
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Bathing customs--India

Genres

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

Licenses

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