Details

Other Title:

Saurasūkta

Subjects:

Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Sūrya (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Vedic hymn dedicated to the sun personified as a deity (Sūrya).

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 10v); alternate title Saurasūkta supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added in red at the beginning for recitation, but are incomplete; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Watermarks of a coat of arms.

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 427 (UP 2038).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2038.

OCLC:

956709269