Details

Subjects:

Kālī (Hindu deity).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

Small manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise of the goddess Kālī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 13r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaparivrājakācāryaśrīma[c]chaṃkarācāryaviracite śrīmahākālīmānasapūjāsamāptaḥ // śrīrāma // (f. 13r).

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 1808 (UP 2549).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2549.

OCLC:

969359486