Script: Tamil script Binding: Wooden covers, bound through two holes in each leaf and cover, one hole with a long cord running through and the other with a wooden dowel fixed holding the volume steady. Label on front cover in Tamil script not deciphered. Label on front cover indicates that this a copy made in approximately 1840 for the Rev. William Tracy (Williams College 1833) from an older manuscript housed in the "Treasury of the Great Madura Temple." Provenance: Gift of the Rev. George T. Washburn (Williams 1850). A palm leaf manuscript in Tamil script containing the text of an Upanishad. A typed label pasted to one of the covers identifies the manuscript as "attached to the Kanda Purana -- the Purana detailing Siva's incarnations and doings at the Great Siva Temple, Madura, India."
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