Gaurīmantra, circa 1700-1850; गौरीमन्त्र,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

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.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Gaurī (Hindu deity); Śiva (Hindu deity); Siva (Hindu deity); Śaivism; Puja (Hinduism); Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Hindu mantras; Hindu goddesses

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Prayers; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper; 6 x 11 cm

Rights:

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

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)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 3043

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts