Details

Other Title:

Gaṇapati aṣṭottaraśatanāmāvali.

Subjects:

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Worship (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

List of 108 mantras used in daily meditation and recitation, containing 108 names of the Hindu deity Gaṇeśa.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Gaṇapati aṣṭottaraśatanāmāvalī from back cover (f. 2v).
Written in 16 lines per leaf with three columns of names on each folio.
Bluish paper, browned and stained. Mistakes crossed through with black.
Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ // atha gaṇapatiaṣṭottaraśatanāmāvalī prāraṁbhāḥ // 1 //
Colophon: iti aṣṭottaraśatagaṇapatīnāmāvali samāptaḥ // śake 1769 hemalaṁbīnāma saṁvatsaraṁ margaśīrṣavadya 13 te dinī samāptaḥ // śrīgaṇapativarada //
Dated: śaka 1769 (1847).

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 4406 (UP 1994).
Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 1 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949), p. 347.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1994

OCLC:

768767920