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Gaurīmantra, circa 1700-1850.
गौरीमन्त्र
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 3043
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Gaurī (Hindu deity).
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Śaivism.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Hindu mantras.
- Hindu goddesses.
- Genre:
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 6 x 11 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 3043
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Diminutive manuscript for personal prayer and recitation, possibly carried on the person as a kind of portable prayer. Dedicated to the Hindu goddess Gaurī a form of the goddess Pārvatī, consort of the deity Śiva, also venerated in the text.
- Notes:
- Formerly housed with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 232 and may be from the same original owner named Harimiśra.
- Title from incipit (f.1r).
- Written in 8 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated [1-2], upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Non-Latin script record.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 3043
- OCLC:
- 823482098
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