Details

Other Title:

Rātrivarga.
Śāntisūkta.
Rātrisūkta

Subjects:

Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Late Vedic supplementary text, a hymn of interpolation after Ṛgveda 10.127.

Notes:

Title from front and back title pages (f. 1r, 20v) and abbreviation; alternate title Rātrivarga from colophon; alternate titles Śāntisūkta and Rātrisūkta from rubric (f. 1v).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
20 leaves foliated upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti rātrivargasamāptaḥ / śake 1751 sarvadhārīnāmasaṃvatsare / uttarāyaṇasūryena saṃtemadhubhistathā / kṛṣṇapakṣe daśaṃbhyā ca bhaumavāre samāpti ca / śrīgajānanārpaṇamastu / śrīrāmajayarāmajayajayarām // kṛṣṇāya gopālāya gopijanavallabhāya namaḥ // (f. 20r).
Dated śaka 1751 (1821) in the cyclical year named Sarvadhārī, during the Uttarāyaṇasūrya (December-June), in Vasanta (Spring), in the month of Madhu (March-April), during the dark half of the month, on Bhaumavāra (Tuesday). (f. 20r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out, some corrections in margins, text highlighted in red throughout, vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.

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 421 (UP 78).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 78

OCLC:

756509009