Details

Other Title:

Dattātreya

Subjects:

Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Dattātreya (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Worship (Hinduism).
Respiration -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Prayers (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is dedicated to a regional form of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu called Dattātreya, particularly popular in Maharashtra and associated with elements of Vaiṣṇava-tantra. There is a note on the front of the manuscript (f. 1r) listing the five prāṇas (breaths), used in ritual respiratory exercises.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r); alternate title Dattātreya from end title page (f. 2v).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmadgovindoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaśrīmacchaṃkarabhagavatpādaviracitaṃ śrīmaddattātreyastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīvāsūdevārpaṇamastu // (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 1789 (UP 2448).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2448.

OCLC:

968130542