Details

Standardized Title:

Vedas. Yajurveda. Kr̥ṣṇayajurveda (Taittirīyasaṃhitā). Rudrādhyāya

Other Title:

Śatarudrīya

Subjects:

Vedas.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Vedas -- Recitation -- Early works to 1800.
Rudra (Hindu deity) -- Early works to 1800.
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

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. First two leaves of the manuscript are missing.

Notes:

Title from abbreviation, upper left and lower right margin (f. 22v); alternate title Śatarudrīya supplied by cataloger.
Written in 6-8 lines per leaf.
20 leaves foliated 3-22, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated saṃvat 1843 (1786) (f. 22r).
Scribe is Mukāma Ābhaun (f. 22r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; accents for aid in Vedic 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 415 (UP 2435).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2435.

Contributor:

Mukāma Ābhaun, scribe.

OCLC:

965447613