Details

Standardized Title:

Vedas. Yajurveda. Kr̥ṣṇayajurveda (Taittirīyasaṃhitā). Rudrādhyāya

Other Title:

Śatarudrīya

Subjects:

Śaivism.
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Vedic hymns praising the deity Rudra (the howler) a Vedic precedent for the Hindu deity Śiva. Text is often referred to as the Śatarudrīya or 100 Rudras.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Śatarudrīya supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1913 (1856) (f. 18v), but dated in a second scribal hand likely after the manuscript was originally written and possibly by a former owner.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, many in a second scribal hand; opening phrase highlighted in red; metrical accents in red and black throughout to aid in recitation.

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 3474 (UP 2032).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2032.

OCLC:

956706345