Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Liṅgapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript used in private or public recitation and prayer, praising and worshiping (pūjā) the Hindu deity Rāma and his one thousand names employing mantras. Presented in the form of a dialogue between the deities Maheśvara (a form of Śiva) and Umā (a form of the goddess Pārvatī).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
17 leaves foliated 1-16, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīliṃgapurāṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde rāmasahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // cha // cha // cha // cha // gāḍe gilpanāmaka janārdanapaṃtasya idaṃ pustakaṃ (f. 16v).
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.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Janārdanapanta Gāḍegila (f. 16v), also referred to as Janārdanapanta Bhatu Gāḍagila in Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2460. Possibly the same as Janārdana Koṇḍadeva Gāḍagila, former owner of more than 20 other manuscripts in Ms. Coll. 390, University of Pennsylvania.

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 1425 (UP 2333).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2333

Contributor:

Gāḍagila, Janārdanapanta Bhatu, former owner.

OCLC:

800667756