Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2804: Gaṅgālaharī University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2804: Gaṅgālaharī are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from title page (f. 1r); title of second fragment from end title page (f. 15r). Written in 9-12 lines per leaf. 7 leaves foliated 1-6, 15, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; blue European paper. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2804 9976288043503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/979991074 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7628804 Manuscript used for private or public recitation, prayer and worship (pūjā) in praise of the Hindu goddess Gaṅgā known also as the river Ganges especially in the city of Vāraṇasī, sacred to the Hindu religion. Frequent mention of Śiva. Title translates as the Wave of the Ganges. Work is incomplete. Includes part of an unidentified commentary. A second fragment of a text from the Anusmṛti dedicated to Viṣṇu is at the end (f. 15). In Sanskrit Gaṅgālaharī गङ्गालहरी Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja

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 1 item (7 leaves) : 12 x 22 cm Gaṅgā (Hindu deity) Siva (Hindu deity) Hindu mythology Devotional literature, Sanskrit Poems Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century