Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1599: Kokilāvrata
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Title from final folio, lines 1-2 (f. 4v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.
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University of Pennsylvania
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1599
9954145393503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773694818
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5414539
Devotional rites for gaining merit, wealth, and children, typically performed by women; venerates the Hindu goddess Satī, the wife of Śiva, in the form of a Cuckoo bird (Kokilā); connected to the myth cycle of the Destruction of Dakṣa's Sacrifice.
In Sanskrit
Kokilāvrata
कोकिलाव्रत
paper
1 item (4 leaves) : 12 x 20 cm
Rites and ceremonies--India
Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
Hindu mythology
Siva (Hindu deity)
Sati
Prayers
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
Manuscripts--India--18th century
Manuscripts--India--19th century