Rāmagāyatrī, after 1875
रामगायत्री, १८७५

Description
Manuscript used for private recitation or prayer, containing a series of mantras and hymns, especially the Gāyatrī mantra (originally a Vedic hymn), in praise of the Hindu deity Rāma and various figures from the Rāmāyaṇa.
Form
manuscripts (documents)
prayers (compositions)
hymns
watermarks
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Date
1875
Language
Sanskrit
Subject
Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa
Rāma (Hindu deity)
Devotional literature, Sanskrit
Hindu mantras
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
Collection
Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Extent
1 item (11 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 21 cm
Notes
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
Watermarks of the year 1875 and Britannia.
Bound on the left side as a codex with thread.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some vertical margins marked with single or double black line.
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2656
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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