Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hymn praising Lakṣmī (known as Śrī), the goddess of wealth. Part of a group of texts appended to the Ṛgveda known as the khila (filling in gaps and considered apocryphal), not found in the original text but thought to be very early.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; metrical accents to help in recitation in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 33 (UP 2024).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2024.

OCLC:

954472949