Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for personal recitation (employing mantras), prayer, reflection, and worship (pūjā), celebrating the thousand names of the popular Hindu goddess Lalitā, a form of the deity Dūrgā.

Notes:

Title colophon (f. 33v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
33 leaves foliated 1-32, [33], lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīlalitāsahasranāmāvalisamāptā // śrī aṃbikāyainamaḥ // śrī (f. 33v).
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. Floral and cross hatching design on front cover in red and black ink (f. 1r).
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 1423 (UP 1995).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1995

OCLC:

800665931