Details

Subjects:

Rivers.
India.
Rivers -- India -- Religious aspects.
Gangā (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Text is attributed to the eighth-century Vedanta philosopher Śaṅkarācārya. Some scholars hold that many examples of such hymns (stotras) are falsely attributed to this figure.

Summary:

Small manuscript used in private or public recitation and prayer. Text is in seventeen verses and is dedicated to the praise and celebration of the Hindu sacred river the Ganges (Gaṅgā), in the form of a goddess, along with mention of its geological aspects (such as the tributary Bhāgīrathī).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīsaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ śrīgaṃgāstavanastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ śrīgaṃgārpaṇamastu // (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Formerly housed with Item 459 and Item 460.
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 1764 (UP 458).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 458

OCLC:

809265340