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Title

Gaṇeśasahasranāma
गणेशसहस्रनाम

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 774
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9956532723503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/785135441
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5653272

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Devotional text of praise, venerating the elephant-headed, Hindu deity Gaṇeśa and his one thousand names. Secondary, devotional text consisting of nine lines of text is dedicated to Gaṇeśa and mantras praising him (f. 42v-43r).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 43v); alternate title Mahāgaṇapatisahasranāma, from colophon (f. 42v).
   
• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
   
• 43 leaves foliated 1-43, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1859 and śaka 1724 (1802) (f. 42v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red and yellow line.
   
• Two colored illustrations, one of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Gaṇeśa seated on a lotus flower and flanked by two attendants standing on lotus flowers (f. 1r); the second illustration is of a seated goddess (possibly Lakṣmī), flanked by a single attendant or worshiper (f. 38v).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (43 leaves) : 9 x 15 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrī padmapurāṇe mahāgaṇapatiproktaṃ mahāgaṇapatisahasranāmasaṃpūrṇamṃ sa[ṃ]vat // 1859 // śake 1724 duṃdubhināmte saṃvatsare vaiśākhaśukla // 7 // bhaume idaṃ gaṇapatisahasranāmaṃ likhitaṃ śubhaṃ bhavatu // kalpāṇam astu // śrīḥ // śrīḥ // śrīḥ // śrīḥ // (f. 42r-42v).

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras

Genres

• Prayers
• Hymns
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illustration, f. 1r
• fol. 38v-39r — Illustration, f. 38v