Details

Subjects:

Sarasvatī (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for private or public recitation and prayer employed for improving concentration and memory. First part is dedicated to venerating the Hindu goddess Sarasvati, a personification of the heavenly river of the same name, through the employment of mantras. Part two gives a short version of the other part, repeating some of the former text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmahāsarasvatīdhāraṇāstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīśāradārpaṇam astu // śubhaṃ bhavatu // śrīkāśīviśveśvaraprasannā (f. 3r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. May have been written in two hands; a couple of lines of Grantha sript are written on the final folio (f. 3v).
Formerly housed with Ms. Coll. 390: Items 453, 455, 456, and 457.
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 1887 (UP 454).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 454

OCLC:

810266320