Details

Subjects:

Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Yamuna River (India).
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).
Saraswati River (India).
Allahabad (India).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private or public use, recitation, and prayer in honor of the pilgrimage center (now the modern city of Allahabad) where three rivers meet: the Gaṅgā (Ganges), the Yamunā, and the Sarasvatī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti triveṇīstotraṃ saṃpūrṇam // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Margins marked with double line in pencil (f. 2).

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 1851 (UP 2490).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2490.

OCLC:

968936383