Saṃkaṭāstotra, circa 1700-1850.
संकटस्तोत्र

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Worship (Hinduism).

Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.

Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.

India.

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Genre:

poems

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 16 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 468

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Praise (stotra), worship, and veneration of various places around the pilgrimage city of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), such as Viśveśvara, a form of the Hindu deity Śiva. Presented as a discourse between the Indian sage Nārada and king Yudhiṣṭira. Attributed to the Padmapurāṇa, but no section or chapter given.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

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

Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe saṃkaṭāstotraṃ pūrṇam śubhamastu śubhaṃ // (f. 2v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

Formerly housed with Item 465, Item 466, Item 467, Item 469, 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 1132 (UP 468).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 468

OCLC:

781297808