Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2478: Saundarylaharī stotra University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2478: Saundarylaharī stotra 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 ©2018 University of Pennsylvania Libraries 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 colophon (f. 37r). Written in 6 lines per leaf. 37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso. Dated śaka 1638 (1716) (f. 37v). Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line; some folios are blue. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2478 9960785173503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/867636810 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6078517 Manuscript is a version of the Wave of beauty (Saundarylaharī), configured as a praise (stotra) work, and is also a poetic and Tantric contemplative work, traditionally attributed to the 8th-century Sanskrit philosopher Śaṅkara. In Sanskrit Saundarylaharī stotra सौन्दर्य्लहरी स्तोत्र Śaṅkarācārya Colophon: iti śrīmachaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ sauṃdaryyalaharīstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śake 1638 darmukhanāmasaṃvatsare // vaiśākhaśuddhatrayodaśyāṃ iduvārena likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptimagamat // śrī rastū // śubhaṃ bhavatu // śrīśaṃkarārpaṇamastū // (f. 37r-37v).

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 1 item (37 leaves) : 10 x 16 cm Tantrism Devotional literature, Sanskrit Hindu hymns, Sanskrit Poems Prayers Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts--India--18th century