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Ṣaṣṭhīpūjā, 1881.
षष्ठीपूजा
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 470
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Childbirth.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Goddesses, Indic.
- Childbirth--India.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 18 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 470
- Place of Publication:
- 1881.
- १८८१.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Rite (pūjā) performed to the goddess Ṣaṣṭhī on the sixth day after giving birth.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1r).
- Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: idaṃ pustakaṃ jaikṛṣṇabhaṭacipolakarayāce ase saṃvat 1937 pauṣabhu - 10 (f. 2v).
- Dated saṃvat 1937 pauṣabhu 10 (Monday, 10 January, 1881) (f. 2v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrase highlighted in red (f. 2v); vertical margins marked with double black line.
- Scribe is Jaikṛṣṇabhaṭṭa (f. 2v).
- Formerly housed with Item 465, Item 466, Item 467, Item 468, and Item 470. These items likely shared a former owner.
- Non-Latin script record.
- Cited in:
- Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3168 (UP 470).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 470
- OCLC:
- 781298005
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