Kṛṣṇāṣṭottarasahasranāma, 1850.
कृष्णाष्टोत्तरसहस्रनाम

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Caturbhuja Dāsa, Swami, active 17th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Puja (Hinduism).

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Krishna (Hindu deity).

Krishna.

Genre:

poems

hymns

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (16 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 399

Place of Publication:

1850.

१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Referred to as Giridharadāsa in the manuscript (f. 16v).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for public or private recitation or prayer and worship (pūjā), venerating and praising more than one thousand and eight names associated with the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīgiridharadāsa vira[ci]taṃ kakārādiśrīkṛṣṇāṣṭottarasahasranāmasamāptaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // śubhaṃ // śrīrastu // saṃvat 1907 śrāvaṇakṛṣṇapaṃcami // 5 // caṃdravāsare // li - tra - ratneśvarasudhākarayaṃtrālaye mudritaṃ // (f. 16v).

Dated saṃvat 1907 śrāvaṇakṛṣṇapañcami 5 caṃdravāsare (Tuesday, August 27, 1850) (f. 16v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 1685 (UP 399).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 399

OCLC:

838608084