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Daśarathaśanaiścarastotra, 1838. = शनिश्चरस्तोत्र, १८३८.

Publication:
1838.
१८३८.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 16 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2226
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Standardized Title:
Puranas. Agnipurāṇa. Selections.
Other Title:
Śaniścarastotra.
Subjects:
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu astrology.
Śani (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Uma (Hindu deity).
Form/Genre:
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.
Language:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Summary:
Text of praise to appease the planet Saturn, performed to avert the misfortune, especially for kings, thought to be generated by its celestial movements; presented as a discourse (saṃvāda) between the Hindu deities Śiva and Umā.
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 8v); alternate title Śaniścarastotra from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī agnipurāṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde daśaratha[kūta]śanaiścarastotraṃ saṃpūrṇamastu [//] śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇastu [//] idaṃ pustakaṃ dājīkhaṃḍerāvadoṃḍrībālasyedaṃ pustakaṃ likhitaṃrāṃcaṃdrabhaṭkavīḍans upanāmakaṃ [//] śake 1780 [//] cha [//] (f. 8v).
Dated śaka 1780 (1838) (f. 8v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; double daṇḍas in red through part of text.
Scribe is Rāṃcandra Bhaṭkavī (f. 8v).
Non-Latin script record.
Penn Provenance:
Owned by Dājīkhaṃḍe Rāvadoṃḍrībāla (f. 8v), possibly from the village of Donḍrī in the Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, India.
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 1018 (UP 2226).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2226
Contributor:
Rāṃcandra Bhaṭkavī, scribe.
Dājīkhaṃḍe Rāvadoṃḍrībāla, former owner.
OCLC:
774054823