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Title

Other related names

• Veṇīmādhava Puṇatāmakara, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959472743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/841579878
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5947274

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for private or public recitation and prayer and is in praise and worship of the fierce Tantric goddess Kāli. Contains a narrative by the deity Śiva about the goddess. Front folio has a rough diagram of a yantra (mystical diagram) consisting of an eight-petaled lotus flower with two intersecting triangles in its center (f. 1r), possibly related to the goddess Kāli, with a second diagram of an eight-pointed star within a circle on the verso (f. 1v).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 15r).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-7, 9-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins drawn with double lines in black or red ink and some having cross hatching within.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Veṇīmādhava Puṇatāmakara (f. 15v).
   

Subjects topical

• Kālī (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Hindu mythology
• Tantrism
• Śaivism
• Yantras

Genres

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — rough design f. 1r
• fol. 1v-2r — diagram f. 1v