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Gaṇeśasahasranāman, circa 1800-1900.
गणेशसहस्रनामन्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 594
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
- Gaṇeśa.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
- Hindu mantras.
- Genre:
- poems
- hymns
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (22 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 594
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1800-1900.
- १८००-१९००.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for private recitation and prayer in honor of the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Ganeśa. Contains a series of mantras evoking the thousand different names (sahasranāman) associated with the god.
- Notes:
- Title from sixth verse (f. 2r).
- Written in 6 lines per leaf.
- 22 leaves foliated 1-21, [22], upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ // kailāsaśireramye suravāsīnaṃ trilocanaṃ // (f. 1v).
- 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 1894 (UP 594).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 594
- OCLC:
- 857174239
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