Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Liṅgapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Recitations.
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Puja (Hinduism).
Recitations -- Religious aspects.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Parvati (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript to be employed in private or public meditation, recitation, and prayer dedicated to the praise, glorification, and worship (pūjā) of the Hindu deity Rāma through mantras and the presentation of his one thousand names; identifies him with Viṣṇu. Presented as a discourse between the goddess Umā (form of Pārvatī) and Maheśvara (a form of Śiva).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10v).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīliṃgapurāṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde rāmasahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // sahasrabuddhetyupākṛyasya rāmaṣarmaṇaḥ idaṃ pustakaṃ svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca // śubhaṃ // (f. 10v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Rāmaśarmaṇ (f. 10v).

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 1426 (UP 2212).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2212

Contributor:

Rāmaśarman, active 17th century, former owner.

OCLC:

801653394