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Viṣṇusahasranāmāvalī, 1871; विष्णुसहस्रनामावली,१८७१

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3g25x
Title: Viṣṇusahasranāmāvalī, 1871, विष्णुसहस्रनामावली,१८७१
Date: 1871
Collection: Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Poems, Hymns, Prayers, Manuscripts, Sanskrit, Manuscripts, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Text used in public or private recitation and prayer, employing mantras in worship (pūjā). The first part of the text (f. 1-21) is devoted to listing one thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu such as Bhagavan, Vaṣaṭkāra, Suvarṇabindu, and Rathāṅgapāṇi among others; the second part of the text (f. 1-17) is devoted to mantras praising the deity Rudra (a Vedic form of Śiva); this text is also known more commonly as the Rudram or the Śatarudrīya from the Yajurveda. Manuscript consists of two separate text with independent foliation, but are by the same scribal hand, using the same paper. Poleman only identifies the first part of the work and refers only to its 21 folios, but mentions the red accents found exclusively in the second work.
Extent: 1 item (38 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 18 cm
Language: Sanskrit
Note: Table of contents: Part 1: Viṣṇusahasranāmāvalī; (Part 2:) Rudrapraśna., Title from internal colophon (f. 21r); title of second part Rudrapraśna from incipit of second work (f. 1v)., Written in 7 lines per leaf., 38 leaves foliated 1-21, 1-17, upper left and lower right verso., Internal Colophon: iti śrīviṣṇusahasranāmāvalīsamāptā // saṃvat 1928 // (f. 21r)., Dated saṃvat 1928 (1871) (f. 21r)., Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases as well as accents highlighted in red throughout the second part of the manuscript., Non-Latin script record., In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3g25x
Subject: Rudra (Hindu deity), Śiva (Hindu deity), Siva (Hindu deity), Vishnu (Hindu deity), Hindu mantras, Devotional literature, Sanskrit, Puja (Hinduism), Vedic literature, Gods, Vedic
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 389
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9957943883503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3g25x/manifest

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