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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957944743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800405564
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794474

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Summary

Text used in public or private recitation and prayer, employing mantras in worship (pūjā), devoted to listing one thousand names of the Hindu goddess Lalitā, often envisioned as the consort of the deity Śiva or approached as a form of the goddess Dūrgā. Especially popular in the state of Maharashtra.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1911 mārgaśirṣavīdya 3 (Thursday, November 23, 1854 A.D.) (f. 18r).
   
• 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.
   
• European stock of paper, bluish color, featuring a watermark of a crest with a crown on many folios.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Hindu goddesses
• Durgā (Hindu deity)
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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