Rāmastavarājastotramantra, circa 1700-1850.
रामस्तवराजस्तोत्रमन्त्र

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Anandanatha Yogipravara, attributed name.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Tantrism.
• Pāñcarātra (Sect).
• Vaishnavism.
• Hindu mantras.
• Rāma (Hindu deity).
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Nārada (Hindu mythology).

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (10 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 19 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2209

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used in private or public recitation or prayer dedicated to the praise and worship of the Hindu deity Rāma through the perspective of the Pāñcarātra school, a Tantric sect of Vaiṣṇavism popular, especially in South India. Text gives vivid iconographic descriptions of the deity. Presented as a conversation between the legendary figures Nārada and Vyāsa. Manuscript leaves some folios blank (f. 6v, f. 7v, f. 8v, and f. 9v), but the text is complete and continuous.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 10v).
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrīsanatkumārasaṃhitatāyāṃ nāradoktaṃ śrīrāmastavarājastotramaṃtraṃ samāptaṃ // śrīrāmārpaṇamastu // (f. 10v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 1498 (UP 2209).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2209

OCLC:

804832424