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

Title

Authors

• Paramahaṃsa Parivrājaka

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959371403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/838647239
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5937140

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a kind of manual or handbook used for public or private recitation or prayer and worship (pūjā) of the Great Goddess of Hinduism, sometimes referred to simply as Devī (goddess). Contains descriptions of rites with fragrant flowers, bathing, and other rites.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 18v).
   
• Written in 5-6 lines per leaf.
   
• 18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1625 (1568) (f. 18r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; grid pattern drawn in double black lines on front (f. 1r) and back (f. 18v) covers.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu goddesses
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Bathing customs--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--16th century
• Manuscripts--India--16th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 394: Devīmānasapūjāvidhi are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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