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Subjects:

Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu law.
Dharma.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Gāyatrī (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Guide including rules and laws of dharma associated with the daily ritual routine of reciting Vedic mantras and verses set in the gāyatrī meter but here directed to non-Vedic deities such as the elephant-head Gaṇeśa and others. Gāyatrī is also personified as a Hindu goddess.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti vaidikamārgeṇagāyatrījapanityavidhiḥ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3091 (UP 1365).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1365.

OCLC:

910182678