Kokilāvrata, circa 1700-1850; कोकिलाव्रत,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Devotional rites for gaining merit, wealth, and children, typically performed by women; venerates the Hindu goddess Satī, the wife of Śiva, in the form of a Cuckoo bird (Kokilā); connected to the myth cycle of the Destruction of Dakṣa's Sacrifice.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions; Hindu mythology; Siva (Hindu deity); Sati

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Prayers; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; Devotional literature

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper; 12 x 20 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from final folio, lines 1-2 (f. 4v).; Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.; 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.; Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double red 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