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

Title

Avatars of Vishnu

Call number

Ms. Indic 1
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948063443503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/651040397
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366295 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3n29pd2m

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Origin

Date

1800s

Summary

Text praising and illustrating the major avatāras of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu, including Kṛṣṇa and Rāma, focusing especially on their defeat of various demons.

Notes

• Includes 36 illustrations.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 3 lines per leaf.
   

Extent

1 item (63 leaves) : 5 x 13 cm

Support

Palm leaf

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), the catalog Dreams, devotion and romance : illustrated manuscripts from India (2010), no. 18.
   

Subjects topical

• Rāma--(Hindu deity)
• Vishnu--(Hindu deity)--Art
• Vishnu--(Hindu deity)
• Krishna--(Hindu deity)
• Rāma--(Hindu deity)
• Krishna--(Hindu deity)
• Hindu literature, Oriya
• Hindu literature, Oriya
• Avatars (Religion)
• Avatars (Religion)
• Monsters--India
• Monsters
• India

Genres

• Manuscripts, Sanskrit
• Prayers
• Art
• Art
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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