Viṣṇudivyasahasranāmastotra, circa 1700-1850; [विष्णुदिव्यसहस्रनामस्तोत्र,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript used for private or public recitation or prayer in praise (stotra) of one thousand names of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu presented in mantras and verse in the context of a story narrated by the legendary figure Vaiśampāyana.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Vishnu (Hindu deity); Siva (Hindu deity); Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Hindu hymns, Sanskrit; Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions; Hindu mythology; Hindu mantras

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Prayers; Hymns; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; Devotional literature

Physical Description:

1 item (24 leaves) : paper; 11 x 15 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).; Written in 7 lines per leaf.; 24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.; Incipit: atha śrīviṣṇordivyasahasranāmastotraprāraṃbhaḥ // (f. 1r); Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers indicated in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts