Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Varāhapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Sri Venkatesvara (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Varāha (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Puja (Hinduism).
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Tirupati (India).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Hymns.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript likely for private meditation and prayer celebrating 108 names of the Hindu deity Veṅkaṭeśa, a South Indian form of the deity Viṣṇu, located on the mountain Tirupati, a sacred pilgrimage site in Tamil Nadu. Presented as a discourse between the deity Varāha and the goddess earth named Dharaṇī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-5, [6], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīvarāhapurāṇe dharaṇīvarāhasaṃvāde vyaṃkaṭagirimāhātmye śrīveṃkaṭeśa aṣṭottaraśataṃ nāma eko naviṃśo dhyāyaḥ samāptaṃ // saṃvat 1875 virodhīnāmasaṃvatsare pauṣaśuklacaturthīgurau tad dine mone upanāmnānārāyaṇena likhitadevalakara upanāmakanārayaṇasyedaṃ pustakaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇa // (f. 5v).
Dated saṃvat 1875 (1818) (f. 5v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.
Scribe is Nārāyaṇa Mone (f. 5v).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Nārayaṇa Devalakare (f. 5v) possibly of the Tumkur district of Karnatika state.

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 1441 (UP 2331).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2331

Contributor:

Mone, Nārāyaṇa, scribe.
Devalakare, Nārayaṇa, former owner.

OCLC:

800400235