Dattātreyastotra, circa 1700-1850; दत्तात्रेयस्तोत्र,१७००-१८५०

Alternate Title:

Dattātreya

Name:

Śaṃkarabhagavatpāda

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript is dedicated to a regional form of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu called Dattātreya, particularly popular in Maharashtra and associated with elements of Vaiṣṇava-tantra. There is a note on the front of the manuscript (f. 1r) listing the five prāṇas (breaths), used in ritual respiratory exercises.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Vishnu (Hindu deity); Dattātreya (Hindu deity); Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Worship (Hinduism); Respiration -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Prayers (documents); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper; 11 x 15 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r); alternate title Dattātreya from end title page (f. 2v).; Written in 11 lines per leaf.; 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmadgovindoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaśrīmacchaṃkarabhagavatpādaviracitaṃ śrīmaddattātreyastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīvāsūdevārpaṇamastu // (f. 2r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts