Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Puja (Hinduism).
Siva (Hindu deity) -- Early works to 1800.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Parvati (Hindu deity) -- Early works to 1800.
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Puja (Hinduism) -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Prayers (documents)
Hymns (documents)
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text praising the Hindu deity Śiva, under the name Mallāri (enemy of the demon Malla), and especially his form as Mārtaṇḍa Bhairava (f. 28r), to be used in public and private recitation and prayer. Said to represent the thousand names (sahasranāma) of Mallāri, the text contains about 100 different names, and reciting them is said to produce children, remove sins, and deliver liberation from the cycle of life and death (mokṣa). Presented as a conversation between the deities Śiva and Pārvatī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 28r).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
28 leaves foliated 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe śivopākhyāne mallāriprakṛtibhāve śrīmallāriprastāve śivapārvatīsaṃvāde mallārisahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 28v).
Dated śaka 1667 (1745) (f. 28r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple 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 1104 (UP 2322).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2322.

OCLC:

960910037