Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Other related names

• Mukāma Ābhaun, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9972507593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965447613
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7250759

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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.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Prayers (documents)
• Hymns (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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