Details

Subjects:

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text used in praise and veneration of the elephant-headed, Hindu deity Gaṇeśa, citing his various epithets such as Vakratuṇḍa (Having a curved elephant's trunk) and Sūryakoṭiprakāśa (Having the brightness of a thousand suns).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī gaṇeśastotrasamāptaṃ // śubham astu // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some highlights in red.
Formerly housed with Item 465, Item 466, Item 468, Item 469, and Item 470. These items likely shared a former owner.
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 1845 (UP 467).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 467

OCLC:

781297474