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Gāyatrījapanityavidhi, circa 1700-1850.
गायत्रीजपनित्यविधि
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Rituals.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu law.
- Dharma.
- Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
- Gaṇeśa.
- Gāyatrī (Hindu deity).
- Gāyatrī.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 15 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1365
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Guide including rules and laws of dharma associated with the daily ritual routine of reciting Vedic mantras and verses set in the gāyatrī meter but here directed to non-Vedic deities such as the elephant-head Gaṇeśa and others. Gāyatrī is also personified as a Hindu goddess.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 2v).
- Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti vaidikamārgeṇagāyatrījapanityavidhiḥ // (f. 2v).
- Mistakes blacked out.
- 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 3091 (UP 1365).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1365.
- OCLC:
- 910182678
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