Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Prayers (documents)
Hymns (documents)
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 colophon (f. 4v).
Dated śaka 1739 (1817) (f. 4v).
Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: śrīsūkta saṃpātaḥ // (f. 4v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in black and red; metrical accents in red throughout for recitation; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Scribe is Bhāskara (f. 4v).

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 35 (UP 2037).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2037.

Contributor:

Bhāskara Mahānubhāva Purṇekara, scribe.

OCLC:

956709122