Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Selections.

Other Title:

Viśveśvarastotra.

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Śaivism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer, celebrating the Śiva liṅga named Vīreśvara and narrated by the legendary figure Viśvānara. The first eight verses (chapter 10.131-138 of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa) consist of a stotra sung by Viśvānara upon seeing a child he took to be a form of Śiva (Vīreśvara); the rest of the text deals with how he obtained a son of his own and the benefits that result (such as obtaining a son) from the performance/recitation of the stotra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6r); alternate title Viśveśvarastotra named on title page (f. 1r), though may be a mistranscription of the name Viśvānara.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated [1], 2-5, [6], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe kāśīkhaṃḍe vīrśvarastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 6r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
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 1573 (UP 2503).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2503

OCLC:

809543652