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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122381602
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178007

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Language

Summary

Ṛgvedic hymns dedicated to the Vedic deity Sūrya, the sun, transmitted as an independent text of praise to be employed in personal or public meditation and prayer.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 10v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; marginal notes and corrections; double vertical red lines delineate margins; accented in red.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1930 (1873) (f. 10v).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sūrya (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Gods, Vedic
• Vedic literature

Genres

• Hymns
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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