Details

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu mantras.
Sri Venkatesvara (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Tirupati (India).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for private or public recitation, prayer, and worship (pūjā) and alludes to a thousand names, in the form of mantras, associated with the Hindu deity Veṅkateśvara a South Indian form of the god Viṣṇu, especially renowned in Tirupati i Andra Pradesh.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 12v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: śrīveṃkaṭeśasadasranāmāvalī samāptā // saṃvat 1812 mītī dvītījyeṣṭhavadya 8 ravīvāre prāṇanāthena likhyate śrīsīddharastu śūbhaṃ bhavatu śrīveṃkaṭeśāya (f. 12v).
Dated saṃvat 1812 (1755) (f. 12v).
Scribe is Prāṇanātha (f. 12v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted 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 1892 (UP 432).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 432

Contributor:

Pran Nath, Dr. scribe.

OCLC:

838628657