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Gaṇeśasahasranāma, 1802.
गणेशसहस्रनाम
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 774
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Hindu mantras.
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- miniatures (paintings)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (43 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 15 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 774
- Other Title:
- Mahāgaṇapatisahasranāma.
- Place of Publication:
- 1802.
- १८०२.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Devotional text of praise, venerating the elephant-headed, Hindu deity Gaṇeśa and his one thousand names. Secondary, devotional text consisting of nine lines of text is dedicated to Gaṇeśa and mantras praising him (f. 42v-43r).
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 43v); alternate title Mahāgaṇapatisahasranāma, from colophon (f. 42v).
- Written in 6 lines per leaf.
- 43 leaves foliated 1-43, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrī padmapurāṇe mahāgaṇapatiproktaṃ mahāgaṇapatisahasranāmasaṃpūrṇamṃ sa[ṃ]vat // 1859 // śake 1724 duṃdubhināmte saṃvatsare vaiśākhaśukla // 7 // bhaume idaṃ gaṇapatisahasranāmaṃ likhitaṃ śubhaṃ bhavatu // kalpāṇam astu // śrīḥ // śrīḥ // śrīḥ // śrīḥ // (f. 42r-42v).
- Dated saṃvat 1859 and śaka 1724 (1802) (f. 42v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red and yellow line.
- Two colored illustrations, one of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Gaṇeśa seated on a lotus flower and flanked by two attendants standing on lotus flowers (f. 1r); the second illustration is of a seated goddess (possibly Lakṣmī), flanked by a single attendant or worshiper (f. 38v).
- 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 1096 (UP 774).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 774
- OCLC:
- 785132808
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