Details

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Hindu mythology.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for private or public recitation or prayer in praise (stotra) of one thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu presented in mantras and verse in the context of a story narrated by the legendary figure Vaiśampāyana.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: atha śrīviṣṇordivyasahasranāmastotraprāraṃbhaḥ // (f. 1r)
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers indicated in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple 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 3478 (UP 444).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 444

OCLC:

841590223