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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958277413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810266330
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5827741

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Summary

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer dedicated to the praise of the nine "planets" (includes five planets and various astral bodies, such as the sun and moon). Text includes verses taken from the Ṛgveda.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4r); alternate title Navagrahastotra from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1722 aśvinavadya 1 (Saturday, 4 October 1800) (f. 4r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; accents highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Formerly housed with Ms. Coll. 390: Items 453, 454, 455, and 456.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hindu cosmology
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

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

Licenses

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