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Mṛtyuñjayajapavidhāṇa, circa 1700-1850.
मृत्युञ्जयजपविधाण
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1340
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Mṛtyuñjaya homa.
- Hindu mantras.
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 10 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1340
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript contains a collection of mantras employed, especially for recitation, in rites for purifying oneself from past actions (karma) and overcoming ultimate death; especially associated with Śiva. Manuscript was originally part of a larger collection of ritual texts.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 3v).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti mṛtyuṃjayajapavidhānaṃsamāptaṃ (f. 3v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some additions and corrections in margins.
- 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 4537 (UP 1340).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1340.
- OCLC:
- 908400853
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