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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959998853503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857179320
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5999885

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Summary

Manuscript used for private recitation and prayer in honor of the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Ganeśa. Contains a series of mantras evoking the thousand different names (sahasranāman) associated with the god.

Notes

• Title from sixth verse (f. 2r).
   
• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
   
• 22 leaves foliated 1-21, [22], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

Licenses

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