Details

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Prayers (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text used in public or private recitation and prayer, employing mantras in worship (pūjā). The text lists one thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu such as Hari, Keśava, Nārasiṃha, Hiraṇyagarbha, and others.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 13v).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
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 3479 (UP 2243).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2243.

OCLC:

960909953