Dattātreyastotra, circa 1700-1850.
दत्तात्रेयस्तोत्र

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṃkarabhagavatpāda.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Vishnu.

Dattātreya (Hindu deity).

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Worship (Hinduism).

Respiration--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Respiration.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 15 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2448

Other Title:

Dattātreya

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is dedicated to a regional form of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu called Dattātreya, particularly popular in Maharashtra and associated with elements of Vaiṣṇava-tantra. There is a note on the front of the manuscript (f. 1r) listing the five prāṇas (breaths), used in ritual respiratory exercises.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r); alternate title Dattātreya from end title page (f. 2v).

Written in 11 lines per leaf.

2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmadgovindoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaśrīmacchaṃkarabhagavatpādaviracitaṃ śrīmaddattātreyastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīvāsūdevārpaṇamastu // (f. 2r).

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 1789 (UP 2448).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2448.

OCLC:

968130542