Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Viṣṇupurāṇa. Selections.

Other Title:

Laks̜mīstuti.

Subjects:

Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Puja (Hinduism).
Indra (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text for public or private recitation and prayer to be used in the worship (pūjā) and praise of the Hindu goddess Lakṣmī, the consort of the deity Viṣṇu. Presented as a discourse between the legendary sage Parāśara and the vedic deity Indra.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 3v); alternate title Laks̜mīstuti from colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīviṣṇupurāṇe prathameśeśaktakṛtā laks̜mīstutir navamodhyāyaḥ // 9 // 11 // śrīśāke 1749 śrīsamvat 1884 (f. 3r).
Dated śaka 1749 saṃvat 1884 (1827) (f. 3r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 1474 (UP 403).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 403

OCLC:

800358954