Details

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Puja (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

First part of the text resides only on the opening folio (f. 1r) and was added by a second hand apart from that writing the second and primary text of the manuscript. It is a short meditative text (dhyāna) on the manifestation of the Hindu goddess named Maṇikarṇikā, possibly related to the temple in Varāṇasī by that name. The second, the primary text of the manuscript, is a devotional hymn used in private or public meditation or prayer in honor of and for the worship (pūjā) of the Hindu goddess Lakṣmī.

Contents:

(Part 1:) Maṇikarṇikādhyāna
(Part 2:) Lakṣmīsūkta.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v); alternate title Maṇkarṇkādhyāna from incipit (f. 1r)
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmahālakṣmīsūktasaṃpūrṇam // (f. 4v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Formerly housed with Item 414, Item 415, Item 416, and Item 417.
Non-Latin script record.

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 1400 (UP 413).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 413

Contains:

Maṇikarṇikādhyāna.

OCLC:

800385311