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)
Śiva (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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