Nārāyaṇastotra, 1754.
नारायणस्तोत्र

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Narayana (Hindu deity).
• Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
• Vishnu (Hindu deity).
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Avatars (Religion).

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 18 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2210

Place of Publication:

• 1754.
• १७५४.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text that would be used in private or public prayers and meditation praising the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa, considered a form of Viṣṇu in the text. Outlines many of the deeds and characteristics of the avatāras of Viṣṇu.

Notes:

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrī nārāyaṇastotraṃ samāptaḥ // śrī sa[ṃ]vat 1811 bhādrapadaśūddha 13 śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu // cha // cha // (f. 3v).
• Dated saṃvat 1811 (1754) (f. 3v).
• Mistakes covered in yellow, blacked out, or written over in red; some corrections and additions in margins in red or black.
• 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 1861 (UP 2210).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2210

OCLC:

791454857