Anantapūjā, circa 1700-1850
अनन्तपूजा, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- Ritual (pūjā) performed for personal and worldly benefit; dedicated to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu in the form of Ananta and propitiates and praises other deities such as Yamunā and Indra; includes hymns to these deities, breath exercises, etc; possibly connected to the Padmapurāṇa (f. 3v).
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Vishnu (Hindu deity)
- Rites and ceremonies -- India
- Rites and ceremonies
- Hindu mythology
- Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (42 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 14 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 42v).
- Written in 6 lines per leaf.
- 42 leaves foliated 1-42, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti anaṃtapūjāsamāptāḥ// śubhaṃbhavatū // śrī // ra // stu // (f. 42v).
- Mistakes covered over in white or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Non-Latin script record.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1372
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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