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Title

Authors

• Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959369923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/838608116
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5936992

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for private or public recitation, prayer and worship (pūjā) in praise of the Hindu goddess Gaṅgā known also as the river Ganges, sacred to the Hindu religion. Title translates as the "Wave of the Ganges." Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Gaṅgā (Hindu deity)
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Rivers--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Sacred space--India

Genres

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

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