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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977364691103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1049573637
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dv1d24h

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

circa 1700-1850

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.

Notes

• Significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double line.
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Veṅkaṭeśvara--(Hindu deity)
• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Varāha (Hindu deity)
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu goddesses
• Tirupati (India)

Genres

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

Licenses

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