Daśaharāstotra, circa 1700-1850; दशहरास्तोत्र,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Ceremony held on the tenth day of the month of Jyeṣṭha (May-June) to honor and worship (pūjā) the sacred Ganges river. Rites performed are supposed to wash away or remove (harā) ten sins (pāpa) by bathing in the Ganges river.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Bathing customs; Puja (Hinduism); Rivers -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Bathing customs -- India; Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Prayers; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (6 leaves) : paper; 11 x 17 cm

Geographic Subject:

India; Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6v).; Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.; 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left verso.; Colophon: iti śrībhaviṣyottare purāṇe daśaharāstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 6v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts