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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957944003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800385122
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794400

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Summary

Text used in public and private meditation and prayer dedicated to the worship (pūjā) and veneration of the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa (named Vakratuṇḍa or the one with the curved trunk). Contains primarily a series of mantras related to this deity. The names Gaṇeśa and Śiva are written as abbreviations of a larger title of an unknown Purāṇic work, possibly the Gaṇeśapurāṇa. Lacks end and incorrectly titled "Aghoramantra" by Poleman using the explicit (f. 2v).

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out.
   
• Formerly housed with Item 413, Item 414, Item 415, and Item 416.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Siva (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

Licenses

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