Naṭeśasahasranāman, 1909.
नटेशसहस्रनामन्

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

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

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 8 x 17 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 397

Other Title:

Śivarahasya.

Place of Publication:

• 1909.
• १९०९.

Language Note:

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