Details

Subjects:

Sri Venkatesvara (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Vaishnavism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.
Puja (Hinduism).
Tirupati (India).

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text to be used in private or public meditation or prayer giving the one thousand names of the regional Hindu deity Veṅkateśvara, a form of the deity Viṣṇu found on the mountain pilgrimage site known as Tirupati. Contains mantras dedicated to this god.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti // śrīveṃkaṭeśasahasranāmāvalīsamāptā // śrīrastuśubham astu // cha // cha // (f. 16r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
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 1479 (UP 423).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 423

OCLC:

800387840