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Viṣṇusahasranāman, circa 1700-1850.
विष्णुसहस्रनामन्
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vishnu (Hindu deity).
- Vishnu.
- Vaishnavism.
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Śaivism.
- Hindu mantras.
- Om--Hinduism.
- Om.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (22 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 420
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Text containing a list of one thousand mantras beginning with Om̐ and each giving a different name for the Hindu deity Viṣṇu. Contains the abbreviation Śiva in the lower right verso margin of each folio, possibly referring to the Śivapurāṇa or some other Śaiva work. Each folio contains three columns of mantras to Viṣṇu, and there is a single mantra to the deity Śiva, śivāya namaḥ, at the top center of the first fourteen folios (f. 1-14v).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 21v).
- Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
- 22 leaves foliated 1-21, [i], lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmasamāptaṃ // (f. 21v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- 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 1476 (UP 420).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 420
- OCLC:
- 800390849
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