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Śītalāṣṭakastotra, 1805.
शीतलाष्टकस्तोत्र
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2511
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu goddesses.
- Smallpox--Religious aspects.
- Diseases--Religious aspects.
- Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Genre:
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 14 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2511
- Place of Publication:
- 1805.
- १८०५.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Small manuscript for private use, recitation, and prayer, dedicated to praising the goddess of smallpox Śītalā (the cooling one). Contains 20 verses of text.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 5r).
- Written in 6 lines per leaf.
- 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe mahādevaskaṃdasaṃvāde śrīśītalāṣṭakastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīśītalādevai namaḥ // saṃvat 1861 pausaśukla ekādaśīsomavāsare // śrīdurgādevyai namaḥ // (f. 4v-5r).
- Dated saṃvat 1861 (1805) (f. 5r)
- Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; margins marked with vertical double red lines.
- 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 1589 (UP 2511).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2511
- OCLC:
- 812169059
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