Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970391303503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953488706
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7039130

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Summary

Text praising one thousand names of the Hindu deity Gaṇeśa in the form of Varadagaṇeśa (boon-granting Gaṇeśa), possibly connected to the Varadvinayak pilgrimage center in Maharashtra. Work is to be used in private or public devotion and worship (pūjā). Part of a larger Śaiva work on Tantra, the Rudrayāmalatantra.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 15r); alternate title Gaṇeśasahasranāmastotra from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1674 (1752) (f. 15r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line as well as decorative designs in black and red ink; some folios are treated with a blue wash mixed with a metallic powder.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit--Early works to 1800
• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Śaivism--Early works to 1800
• Tantrism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorative borders throughout, f. 1r to f. 15v