Details

Subjects:

Hanumān (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Prayers (documents)
Hymns (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Short devotional text in praise (stotra) and worship (pūjā) of the monkey god Hanuman; used in public or private meditation and prayer. Employs mantras with repetitive syllables such as "taṃ taṃ taṃ," "daṃ daṃ daṃ," and "ruṃ ruṃ ruṃ" throughout.

Notes:

Manuscript on paper with a watermark of a decorative palanquin with a figure inside on top of an elephant and an elephant rider; also includes a decorative watermark with indistinguishable, partial words.
Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīhanumadāṣṭakastotraṃ sampūrṇam // cha śrīrāma // (f. 3v).
Double purple vertical lines mark margins; purple horizontal lines drawn for each line of text.
Formerly housed with Item 413, Item 415, Item 416, and Item 417.
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 1908 (UP 414).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 414

OCLC:

800388122