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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959998843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857174225
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5999884

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Summary

Manuscript used for private recitation or prayer and contains a series of mantras and hymns, especially the Gāyatrī mantra (originally a Vedic hymn), in praise of the Hindu deity Rāma identified in the text as the son of Daśaratha. Also identifies the Vedic goddess Gāyatrī with the Tantric, feminine power known as Śakti.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, middle left and middle right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Gāyatrī (Hindu deity)
• Shaktism
• Tantrism
• Hindu mantras
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Daśaratha
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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