Vedasāraśivasahasranāma, circa 1700-1850.
वेदसारशिवसहस्रनाम

Format:

• Manuscript

Standardized Title:

• Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Śiva (Hindu deity).
• Siva (Hindu deity).
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Rites and ceremonies--India.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• India.
• Krishna (Hindu deity).

Genre:

• dialogues
• prayers (compositions)
• hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (20 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 380

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Praise (stotra) of the Hindu deity Śiva and a thousand of his different names. Presented as a dialogue between the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, the legendary sage Mārkaṇḍeya, the legendary author Vyāsa, and others. Text attributed to the Padmapurāṇa though no section, chapter, or verse is mentioned; it is employed in various celebrations and festivals honoring Śiva.

Notes:

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
• 20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrī pādme ma[hā]purāṇe paṃcapañcāśatsahastikāyāṃsaṃhitāyāṃ uttarabhāge bilvakeśvare śrīkṛṣṇamārkaṃḍeyavyāsādisaṃvāde vedasārasahasranāma ekonanavatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ śrībhavānīharihareśvarārpaṇam astu śake bāṇādrivītīṃdumitebhād[ra]sitedale keśavasya tithau bhūmijanur vāre samāpitam likhitvā pāṇḍuraṅgeṇa bhīmāya pratipāditam śivanāmasahasraṃyattena tuṣyatuśaṅkaraḥ // bhīmasyaivadhruvam (f. 20r).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and extensive additions and notes in margins by a second scribal hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
• Well used manuscript with residual hand oils from turning folios, especially on right side.
• Likely written in Maharashtra, as the regional deity Pāṇḍuraṅga (a form of Kṛṣṇa) is named in the colophon (f. 20r).
• 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 1125 (UP 380).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 380

OCLC:

781861663