Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Worship (Hinduism).
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Praise (stotra), worship, and veneration of various places around the pilgrimage city of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), such as Viśveśvara, a form of the Hindu deity Śiva. Presented as a discourse between the Indian sage Nārada and king Yudhiṣṭira. Attributed to the Padmapurāṇa, but no section or chapter given.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe saṃkaṭāstotraṃ pūrṇam śubhamastu śubhaṃ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Formerly housed with Item 465, Item 466, Item 467, 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 1132 (UP 468).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 468

OCLC:

781297808