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

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2331 Veṅkaṭeśa aṣṭottaraśatanāma / वेङ्कटेश अष्टोत्तरशतनाम

Title

Veṅkaṭeśa aṣṭottaraśatanāma
वेङ्कटेश अष्टोत्तरशतनाम

Other related names

Mone, Nārāyaṇa, scribe
Devalakare, Nārayaṇa, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2331
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9957943783503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800404898
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794378

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Small manuscript likely for private meditation and prayer celebrating 108 names of the Hindu deity Veṅkaṭeśa, a South Indian form of the deity Viṣṇu, located on the mountain Tirupati, a sacred pilgrimage site in Tamil Nadu. Presented as a discourse between the deity Varāha and the goddess earth named Dharaṇī.

Notes

Title from colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-5, [6], upper left and lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1875 (1818) (f. 5v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.
Scribe is Nārāyaṇa Mone (f. 5v).

Extent

1 item (6 leaves) : 11 x 15 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīvarāhapurāṇe dharaṇīvarāhasaṃvāde vyaṃkaṭagirimāhātmye śrīveṃkaṭeśa aṣṭottaraśataṃ nāma eko naviṃśo dhyāyaḥ samāptaṃ // saṃvat 1875 virodhīnāmasaṃvatsare pauṣaśuklacaturthīgurau tad dine mone upanāmnānārāyaṇena likhitadevalakara upanāmakanārayaṇasyedaṃ pustakaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇa // (f. 5v).

Provenance

Formerly owned by Nārayaṇa Devalakare (f. 5v) possibly of the Tumkur district of Karnatika state.

Subjects topical

Sri Venkatesvara (Hindu deity)
Vishnu (Hindu deity)
Varāha (Hindu deity)
Hindu goddesses
Devotional literature, Sanskrit
Puja (Hinduism)
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages

Genres

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

Licenses

Text

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