Details

Other Title:

Śivāṣṭaśatanāmāvalī

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Śaivism.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Work employing mantras (words and phrases of power) to celebrate 108 names associated with the deity Śiva; for use in private or public recitation and prayer.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r); alternate title Śivāṣṭaśatanāmāvalī from title page (f. 4v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśiva aṣṭottaraśattanāmāvalīsamāptā // (f. 4r).
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 4643 (UP 1988).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1988.

OCLC:

952123621