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 is devoted to listing one thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu such as Keśava, Puṇḍarīkākṣa, Viśvayoni.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 15v).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black 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 3480 (UP 2338).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2338.

OCLC:

961266620