Details

Other Title:

Śivarahasya.

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Dance -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise of the one thousand names associated with a special dancing form of the Hindu deity Śiva called Naṭeśa or 'Lord of the dance.' Text is a subsection of a much larger work called the Śivarahasya and is contained in the final part (uttarabhāga) of that work.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī śivarahasye saptamāṃśe uttarabhāge naṭeśasahasranāmasapūrṇaṃ // śrīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // saṃvat 1966 phā[lgune] śu[bhe] 9 śanau // om̐ tat sat // (f. 8r).
Dated saṃvat 1966 (1909) (f. 8r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 4630 (UP 397).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 397

OCLC:

838610082