Details

Standardized Title:

Vedas. R̥gveda. 9. Maṇḍala. Selections.

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Soma.
Soma (Hindu deity).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Opening 12 sections of the ninth book of the Ṛgveda, most addressing purified Soma (pavamāna-Soma), an herbal drug and deity to which many early Vedic hymns are written. The final verse is from a different section of the Ṛgveda, beginning: ruco akṣare parame vyoman (f. 13r).

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout to aid with recitation; 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 13 (UP 2031).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2031.

OCLC:

956706496