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• bibid: 9957943993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800385060
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794399

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Summary

Text containing a list of one thousand mantras beginning with Om̐ and each giving a different name for the Hindu deity Viṣṇu. Contains the abbreviation Śiva in the lower right verso margin of each folio, possibly referring to the Śivapurāṇa or some other Śaiva work. Each folio contains three columns of mantras to Viṣṇu, and there is a single mantra to the deity Śiva, śivāya namaḥ, at the top center of the first fourteen folios (f. 1-14v).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 21v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 22 leaves foliated 1-21, [i], lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Vaishnavism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism
• Hindu mantras
• Om--Hinduism
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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