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Title

Śivasahasranāma
शिवसहस्रनाम

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2245
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957390773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793001224
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5739077

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Text praising one thousand names of the Hindu deity Śiva, especially his passive form as Sadāśiva, to be used in private or public devotion and worship (pūjā) of Śiva and positing him as the highest reality in the universe. Presented as a dialogue between the deity Kṛṣṇa and the legendary figures Mārkaṇḍeya and Vyāsā.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. i recto).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 41 leaves foliated [i], 1-40, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1880 and śaka 1745 (1827) (f. 39v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; double vertical lines in red mark borders throughout. Decorative floral borders on two folios (f. 1v and f. 40v).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (41 leaves) : 12 x 18 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmatpadme mahāpurāṇe uttarabhāge bilvakeśvaramāhātmye śrīkṛṣṇamārkaṃḍeyasaṃvāde dasārākhyaparamadivyasahasranāmaikanavatitamodhyāyaḥ (f. 39r) saṃvat 1880 śake 1745 varṣeparāṃjape upanāmakadhoṃdabhaṭṭena likhitaṃ śivaṃ // śloka 285 (f. 39v).

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Mārkaṇḍeya (Hindu mythology)
• Puja (Hinduism)

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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