Navagrahajāpa, 1800.
नवग्रहजाप

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Planets--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
• Hindu cosmology.
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Puja (Hinduism).

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 13 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 457

Other Title:

Navagrahastotra.

Place of Publication:

• 1800.
• १८००.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer dedicated to the praise of the nine "planets" (includes five planets and various astral bodies, such as the sun and moon). Text includes verses taken from the Ṛgveda.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 4r); alternate title Navagrahastotra from incipit (f. 1r).
• Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti navagrahajapasamāptaṃ // śake 1722 raudranāmasaṃvatsare aśvinavadya 1 caturthapraharīṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 4r).
• Dated śaka 1722 aśvinavadya 1 (Saturday, 4 October 1800) (f. 4r).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; accents highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
• Formerly housed with Ms. Coll. 390: Items 453, 454, 455, and 456.
• 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 1856 (UP 457).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 457.

OCLC:

810268799