Gaurīmantra, circa 1700-1850
गौरीमन्त्र, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- 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.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Gaurī (Hindu deity)
- Śiva (Hindu deity)
- SÌiva (Hindu deity)
- Śaivism
- Puja (Hinduism)
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit
- Hindu mantras
- Hindu goddesses
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 6 x 11 cm
- 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.
- 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 3043
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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