Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 420: Viṣṇusahasranāman
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Title from colophon (f. 21v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-21, [i], lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Non-Latin script record.
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206.
University of Pennsylvania
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ms. Coll. 390 Item 420
9957943993503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800385060
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794399
Text containing a list of one thousand mantras beginning with Om̐ and each giving a different name for the Hindu deity Viṣṇu. Contains the abbreviation Śiva in the lower right verso margin of each folio, possibly referring to the Śivapurāṇa or some other Śaiva work. Each folio contains three columns of mantras to Viṣṇu, and there is a single mantra to the deity Śiva, śivāya namaḥ, at the top center of the first fourteen folios (f. 1-14v).
In Sanskrit
Viṣṇusahasranāman
विष्णुसहस्रनामन्
Colophon: iti śrīviṣṇoḥ sahasranāmasamāptaṃ // (f. 21v).
paper
1 item (22 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm
Vishnu (Hindu deity)
Vaishnavism
Siva (Hindu deity)
Śaivism
Hindu mantras
Om--Hinduism
Devotional literature, Sanskrit
Prayers
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
Manuscripts--India--18th century
Manuscripts--India--19th century