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Gaṅgāsnānaviddhi, circa 1700-1850.
गङ्गास्नानविद्धि
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2433
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Bathing customs.
- India.
- Hindu mantras.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Bathing customs--India.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 16 x 47 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2433
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Text on bathing at the pilgrimage site of the Gaṅgā (Ganges) river, with mantras dedicated to Viṣṇu, mention of the yugas, and references to the Puruṣasūkta from the Ṛgveda.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 22 lines total.
- 1 leaf written on recto only.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in between lines. Blue ink spilled over part of manuscript.
- Single leaf is folded into four sections.
- 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 3321 (UP 2433).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2433.
- OCLC:
- 964533645
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