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Viṣṇudivyasahasranāmastotra, circa 1700-1850.
[विष्णुदिव्यसहस्रनामस्तोत्र
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 444
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vishnu (Hindu deity).
- Vishnu.
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
- Hinduism--Prayers and devotions.
- Hinduism.
- Hindu mythology.
- Hindu mantras.
- Genre:
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Prayers.
- Devotional literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (24 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 15 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 444
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for private or public recitation or prayer in praise (stotra) of one thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu presented in mantras and verse in the context of a story narrated by the legendary figure Vaiśampāyana.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 7 lines per leaf.
- 24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
- Incipit: atha śrīviṣṇordivyasahasranāmastotraprāraṃbhaḥ // (f. 1r)
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers indicated in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.
- 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 3478 (UP 444).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 444
- OCLC:
- 841590223
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