Details

Subjects:

Śaivism.
Hindu goddesses.
Durgā (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text used in public or private recitation and prayer, employing mantras in worship (pūjā), devoted to listing one thousand names of the Hindu goddess Lalitā, often envisioned as the consort of the deity Śiva or approached as a form of the goddess Dūrgā. Especially popular in the state of Maharashtra.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīlatolisahasranāmasaṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīdevī aṃbārpaṇaśrīgurunāthārpaṇam astu // śrīyaṃ // idaṃ pustakabrāhmaṇagujarātī audicyasahasra ayācika ācāryamulanaṃdaravisaṃkaratatputracunnīlālapaṭhanārtha śrīraṃganāthāryaṇam astu // saṃ[va]t 1911 mārgaśirṣabīdya 3 guruvāsare likhitaṃ lalitāṃbāryaṇam astu // (f. 18r).
Dated saṃvat 1911 mārgaśirṣavīdya 3 (Thursday, November 23, 1854 A.D.) (f. 18r).
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 red line.
European stock of paper, bluish color, featuring a watermark of a crest with a crown on many folios.
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 1422 (UP 382).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 382

OCLC:

800405565