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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944996003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/373813992
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4499600

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Summary

Text praises the thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu, which is attributed to the epic Mahābhārata, but has circulated as an independent devotional text used in private or public meditation and prayer. Presented as a discourse between the legendary warriors Bhīṣma and king Yudhiṣṭhira. Not part of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata. Lacks final folio.

Notes

• Double daṇḍas in red. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers. First folio has been damaged and repaired.
   
• Small holes burnt in manuscript (f. 29-30) likely caused from incense; black smudges near the burnt hole (f. 29v).
   
• Written in 5 lines per leaf.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology)
• Bhīṣma (Hindu mythology)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Epic literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Hymns
• Prayers
• Epics
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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