Hanumadāṣṭakastotra, circa 1700-1850.
हनुमदाष्टकस्तोत्र

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hanumān (Hindu deity).

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Puja (Hinduism).

Hindu mantras.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

hymns

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 414

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Short devotional text in praise (stotra) and worship (pūjā) of the monkey god Hanuman; used in public or private meditation and prayer. Employs mantras with repetitive syllables such as "taṃ taṃ taṃ," "daṃ daṃ daṃ," and "ruṃ ruṃ ruṃ" throughout.

Notes:

Manuscript on paper with a watermark of a decorative palanquin with a figure inside on top of an elephant and an elephant rider; also includes a decorative watermark with indistinguishable, partial words.

Title from colophon (f. 3v).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīhanumadāṣṭakastotraṃ sampūrṇam // cha śrīrāma // (f. 3v).

Double purple vertical lines mark margins; purple horizontal lines drawn for each line of text.

Formerly housed with Item 413, Item 415, Item 416, and Item 417.

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 1908 (UP 414).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 414

OCLC:

800388122