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Anantapūjā, circa 1700-1850.
अनन्तपूजा
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1372
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Puranas. Padmapurāṇa.
- Vishnu (Hindu deity).
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu mythology.
- Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (42 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 14 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1372
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Ritual (pūjā) performed for personal and worldly benefit; dedicated to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu in the form of Ananta and propitiates and praises other deities such as Yamunā and Indra; includes hymns to these deities, breath exercises, etc; possibly connected to the Padmapurāṇa (f. 3v).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 42v).
- Written in 6 lines per leaf.
- 42 leaves foliated 1-42, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti anaṃtapūjāsamāptāḥ// śubhaṃbhavatū // śrī // ra // stu // (f. 42v).
- Mistakes covered over in white or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- 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 1020 (UP 1372).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1372
- OCLC:
- 773272903
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