Details

Subjects:

Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

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. 3r).
Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-2, [3], lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīsūktasamāptaṃ // (f. 3r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 36 (UP 2740).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2740.

OCLC:

976178275