University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2222

Images provided by hosting institution via

Mirador viewer

3 of 37 • 2v-3r

Viṣṇusahasranāma, 1700s; विष्णुसहस्रनाम,१७००-१७९९

Metadata

DS ID:

DS6912

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2222

Title:

Viṣṇusahasranāma / विष्णुसहस्रनाम

Mahabharata

Date:

1700s.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 11 x 18 cm

Note:

Colophon: iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasahasrasaṃhitāyāṃ vayyāśavayāṃ śāṃtiparvaṇi (f. 36v).
Double daṇḍas in red. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers. First folio has been damaged and repaired.
Small holes burnt in manuscript (f. 29-30) likely caused from incense; black smudges near the burnt hole (f. 29v).
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
Non-Latin script record.

Keyword:

epic literature

dialogues

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Manuscripts

prayers (literary genre)

hymns

Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology)

Epic literature, Sanskrit

Bhīṣma (Hindu mythological character)

Vishnu (Hindu deity)

Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9944996003503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3610vv4p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania