Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 414: Hanumadāṣṭakastotra University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 414: Hanumadāṣṭakastotra 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/. Manuscript on paper with a watermark of a decorative palanquin with a figure inside on top of an elephant and an elephant rider; also includes a decorative watermark with indistinguishable, partial words. Title from colophon (f. 3v). Written in 7 lines per leaf. 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso. Double purple vertical lines mark margins; purple horizontal lines drawn for each line of text. Formerly housed with Item 413, Item 415, Item 416, and Item 417. Non-Latin script record. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 414 9957944063503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800397582 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794406 Short devotional text in praise (stotra) and worship (pūjā) of the monkey god Hanuman; used in public or private meditation and prayer. Employs mantras with repetitive syllables such as "taṃ taṃ taṃ," "daṃ daṃ daṃ," and "ruṃ ruṃ ruṃ" throughout. In Sanskrit Hanumadāṣṭakastotra हनुमदाष्टकस्तोत्र Colophon: iti śrīhanumadāṣṭakastotraṃ sampūrṇam // cha śrīrāma // (f. 3v).

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 1 item (3 leaves) : 11 x 21 cm Hanumān (Hindu deity) Devotional literature, Sanskrit Puja (Hinduism) Hindu mantras Prayers (documents) Hymns (documents) Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century