Details

Subjects:

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Sanskrit letters.

Form/Genre:

Hymns.
Poems.
Prayers.
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 the Hindu deity Gaṇeśa that begin with the letter "g" (gakāra).
Colophon: iti rudrayāmale mahāguptasāre śivapārvatisaṃvāde gaṇapatīgakārādisahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīgajānanārpam astu śrī śivārpaṇam astu // (f. 24r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 24r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
25 leaves foliated 1-25, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 4557 (UP 386).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 386

OCLC:

838607916