manuscript

Sanskrit manuscript in the Nagari script. A Śaiva tantric ritual text, entitled Vīrāṇāṃ cakrapūjā-paddhati (‘manual for the worship of the host of heroes’), but abbreviated to Vīrapūjā-tantra ‘hero-worship tantra’, and misread in a final colophon, dated VS 1861, Śāka 1726 (= AD 1804), as Vīrāṇāṃ vīrapūjā-paddhati (‘manual for the hero-worship of heroes’. Part of the same document as nn15446.

Sanskrit manuscript in the Nagari script. A Śaiva tantric ritual text, entitled Vīrāṇāṃ cakrapūjā-paddhati (‘manual for the worship of the host of heroes’), but abbreviated to Vīrapūjā-tantra ‘hero-worship tantra’, and misread in a final colophon, dated VS 1861, Śāka 1726 (= AD 1804), as Vīrāṇāṃ vīrapūjā-paddhati (‘manual for the hero-worship of heroes’. Part of the same document as nn15446.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
nn15448
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COLLECTION
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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