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

Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954028023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/770332916
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5402802

Publisher

Language

Summary

Poem in 6 verses (ṣaṭpadī) dedicated to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu traditionally attributed to the medieval Indian sage Śaṅkarācārya; contains reference Viṣṇu's avatāras and other myths associated with the god; the secondary title Ṣaṭpadī is sometimes translated as "the bees" (insect with 6 legs).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2r); alternate title from explicit (f. 2r).
   
• Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper colored yellow.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit poetry
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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