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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959370123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/838618461
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5937012

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a short poem in eight verses, used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise of the river Ganges (Gaṅgā), especially sacred to Hinduism.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Sacred space--India
• Rivers--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

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