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• bibid: 9959472963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/841588870
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5947296

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Summary

Manuscript used for private or public recitation or prayer in praise (stotra) of one thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu presented in mantras and verse in the context of a story narrated by the legendary figure Vaiśampāyana.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Incipit: atha śrīviṣṇordivyasahasranāmastotraprāraṃbhaḥ // (f. 1r)
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers indicated in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu mantras

Genres

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

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