Details

Other Title:

Ṣaṭpadī.

Subjects:

Sanskrit poetry.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Poem in 6 verses (ṣaṭpadī) dedicated to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu traditionally attributed to the medieval Indian sage Śaṅkarācārya; contains reference Viṣṇu's avatāras and other myths associated with the god; the secondary title Ṣaṭpadī is sometimes translated as "the bees" (insect with 6 legs).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r); alternate title from explicit (f. 2r).
Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
Colophon: iti viṣṇo stotre sampūrṇam // śrī (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper colored yellow.
Non-Latin script record.

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 1478 (UP 353).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 353

OCLC:

770332918