Saṃkaṭāstotra, 1820.
संकटस्तोत्र

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Kāśīkhaṇḍa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Flowers.

India.

Birds--India.

Birds.

Flowers--India.

Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.

Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 17 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 469

Place of Publication:

1820.

१८२०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Praise (stotra) and veneration text dealing with flora and fauna, especially birds and blossoms, along the banks of the Ganges River in the pilgrimage city of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

7 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīkāśīkhaṃṇḍe saṃkaṭāstotrasamāptaṃ // śubham astu // saṃvata 1882 // (f. 2r).

Dated saṃvat 1882 (1820) (f. 2r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Formerly housed with Item 465, Item 466, Item 467, Item 468, and Item 470. These items likely shared a former owner.

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 1593 (UP 469).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 469

OCLC:

781297259