Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1066: Nārāyaṇa atharvaśira University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1066: Nārāyaṇa atharvaśira are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Atharvaśiralaghu from colophon (f. 3v). Written in 7 lines per leaf. 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes blacked out; a number of corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1066 9963181793503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897954871 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6318179 Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is an early Hindu philosophical treatise that draws mantras and verses from various Vedic sources in order to promote the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa; this work purports to be a subsection of the Atharvaveda. In Sanskrit Nārāyaṇa atharvaśira नारायण अथर्वशिर Colophon: hariḥ oṃ tat sat atharvaṇaśiralaghusamāptaḥ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 3v).

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 1 item (4 leaves) : 9 x 14 cm Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity) Vaishnavism Hindu mantras Hindu philosophy Philosophy, Indic Treatises Prayers Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century