Details

Subjects:

Puja (Hinduism).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Krishna (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Referred to as Giridharadāsa in the manuscript (f. 16v).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for public or private recitation or prayer and worship (pūjā), venerating and praising more than one thousand and eight names associated with the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīgiridharadāsa vira[ci]taṃ kakārādiśrīkṛṣṇāṣṭottarasahasranāmasamāptaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // śubhaṃ // śrīrastu // saṃvat 1907 śrāvaṇakṛṣṇapaṃcami // 5 // caṃdravāsare // li - tra - ratneśvarasudhākarayaṃtrālaye mudritaṃ // (f. 16v).
Dated saṃvat 1907 śrāvaṇakṛṣṇapañcami 5 caṃdravāsare (Tuesday, August 27, 1850) (f. 16v).
Mistakes 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 1685 (UP 399).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 399

OCLC:

838608084