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Title

Other related names

• Gāḍagīla, Janārdana Koṇḍadeva, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970479133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953736316
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7047913

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Language

Summary

Text praising one thousand names of the Hindu deity Śiva, presented as a dialogue between the deities Skanda (sometimes named Kārttikeya) and Śiva. 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. 36r); alternate title Śivaśasahasranāma from title page (f. 1r); second alternate title Śivaśasahasranāmastotra supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 5-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 36 leaves foliated 1-36, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Rudimentary or unclear watermarks of a coat of arms on some folios.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Janārdana Koṇḍadeva Gāḍagīla, likely from the town of Gāḍagīla (f. 36r).
   

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism
• Tantrism

Genres

• Prayers
• Dialogues
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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