Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Bilvakeśvaramahātmya. Selections.

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Mārkaṇḍeya (Hindu mythological character).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text in praise of names of the Hindu deity Śiva referred to as Vedasāra (essence of the Vedas) employing mantras to be used in public or private veneration and prayer. Derived from the final section (uttarabhaga) of the Bilvakeśvaramahātmya of the Padmapurāṇa. Presented as a dialogue between the deity Kṛṣṇa and the legendary figures Mārkaṇḍeya and Vyāsa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 31r).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
31 leaves foliated 2-31, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī pādme purāṇe paṃcapaṃcāśatsahasrikāyāṃ s[a]ṃhittāyām uttarabhāge bilvakeśvaramahātmye śrīkṛṣṇamārkaṃḍeyaṃ vyāsādiṃsaṃvāṃde vedasāradivyasahasranāmaikonanavatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ // śrīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // śrībhavānīśaṃkaraprasanaśubhaṃ bhavatu (f. 31r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Mostly written on European stock paper (f. 1-21) with water mark depicting a crown under which Victory is seated on a cross (f. 1).
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 1118 (UP 2323).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2323

OCLC:

793423753