Varadagaṇeśasahasranāmastotra, circa 1700-1850.
वरदगणेशसहस्रनामस्तोत्र

Format:

• Manuscript

Standardized Title:

• Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
• Śaivism.
• Tantrism.
• Hindu mantras.

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (18 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 16 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1978

Other Title:

• Gaṇeśasahasranāmastotramantra
• Gaṇeśasahasranāma

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for public or private recitation or prayer and worship (pūjā) of the elephant-headed deity Gaṇeśa. Text praises, through mantras and verse, a thousand names of the god and is from a larger work known as the Rudrayāmala, a work of Tantric Śaivism.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 17r); alternate title Gaṇeśasahasranāma from title page (f. 1r); second alternate title Gaṇeśasahasranāmastotramantra from incipit (f. 1v).
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
• 18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti rudrayāmalataṃtre mahārahasye śrīvaradagaṇeśasahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 17r).
• 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 4555 (UP 1978).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1978.

OCLC:

952052625