Details

Other Title:

Carpaṭapañjurī

Subjects:

Krishna (Hindu deity).
Songs, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Hymns (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, but likely written by one of his followers.

Summary:

Small manuscript contains a song to be sung in honor of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, referred to in the manuscript by names including Gopāla and Govinda; mention of the Bhagavadgītā, a text central to Kṛṣṇa devotees, is also made.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v); alternate title Carpaṭapañjurī from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated [1], 2-5, upper left verso.
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse divisions, incipit and colophon in red; vertical margins marked with double red line; one folio treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect manuscript from insect damage.
Colophon: iti śrīśaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ carpaṭapaṃjarīkāstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīrāmacaṃdrāyanamaḥ (f. 4v).

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 1775 (UP 2466).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2466.

OCLC:

968131822