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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959927533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/855280997
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5992753

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Summary

Manuscript is used as an aid for private or public recitation and prayer and contains mantras dedicated to different manifestations of the Hindu god Śiva, especially Tryaṁbaka (the three-eyed one); many mantras are drawn from Vedic sources.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left verso and upper left recto.
   
• Dated śake 1659 bhādravadi 9 (Wednesday, September 18, 1737) (f. 2r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables and phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with single black line.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

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