Details

Subjects:

Narayana (Hindu deity).
Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Avatars (Religion).

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text that would be used in private or public prayers and meditation praising the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa, considered a form of Viṣṇu in the text. Outlines many of the deeds and characteristics of the avatāras of Viṣṇu.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī nārāyaṇastotraṃ samāptaḥ // śrī sa[ṃ]vat 1811 bhādrapadaśūddha 13 śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu // cha // cha // (f. 3v).
Dated saṃvat 1811 (1754) (f. 3v).
Mistakes covered in yellow, blacked out, or written over in red; some corrections and additions in margins in red or black.
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 1861 (UP 2210).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2210

OCLC:

791454857