Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Krishna (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Dialogues.
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Praise (stotra) of the Hindu deity Śiva and a thousand of his different names. Presented as a dialogue between the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, the legendary sage Mārkaṇḍeya, the legendary author Vyāsa, and others. Text attributed to the Padmapurāṇa though no section, chapter, or verse is mentioned; it is employed in various celebrations and festivals honoring Śiva.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī pādme ma[hā]purāṇe paṃcapañcāśatsahastikāyāṃsaṃhitāyāṃ uttarabhāge bilvakeśvare śrīkṛṣṇamārkaṃḍeyavyāsādisaṃvāde vedasārasahasranāma ekonanavatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ śrībhavānīharihareśvarārpaṇam astu śake bāṇādrivītīṃdumitebhād[ra]sitedale keśavasya tithau bhūmijanur vāre samāpitam likhitvā pāṇḍuraṅgeṇa bhīmāya pratipāditam śivanāmasahasraṃyattena tuṣyatuśaṅkaraḥ // bhīmasyaivadhruvam (f. 20r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and extensive additions and notes in margins by a second scribal hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Well used manuscript with residual hand oils from turning folios, especially on right side.
Likely written in Maharashtra, as the regional deity Pāṇḍuraṅga (a form of Kṛṣṇa) is named in the colophon (f. 20r).
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 1125 (UP 380).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 380

OCLC:

781861663